Patients at Concord Hospital who weren’t paying attention during their most recent office visit might think that they had lost an awful lot of weight. The hospital and its affiliated private practices ...

FARGO – Put down the teaspoons, parents – there’s a good chance you’re not measuring correctly. Adding a little too much vanilla when following a recipe might result in a batch of bad cookies. But a ...

The week of Oct. 10 – that's 10/10 – is National Metric Week because the metric system is based on powers of 10. To change from one unit to another within the system, one has only to move the decimal ...

Many people feel disturbed by or even hostile to the metric system. It`s strange that Americans react so emotionally to a measuring system. After all, there is nothing immoral, criminal, dangerous or ...