You may remember practicing conversions in school − translating the metric system to the standard system to figuring out how many feet are in a yard. The purpose of these equations is not confined to ...

And another thing wrong with international athletics is that they measure everything funny. How long is a meter and how heavy is a kilo? Can we really believe any thermometer that says 32 degrees when ...

Owen Massey's letter (News Shopper, March 20) concerning the metric and decimal system makes sense. Is there really anything easier than the 10 times table on which it is based? Also, as he rightly ...

When I was a consultant at McKinsey, we helped Fortune 500 companies optimize their marketing spend. With the help of statistics PhDs, we applied complex statistical models to customer data to ...

Electric bikes are becoming more popular as the cost to own one goes down, and the cost to own a gas-powered vehicle goes up. If you ask a true cyclist what they think of an electric bike, you might ...