1 In late 1975, President Gerald Ford had a unique vision for making America great again. He wanted to embrace a French invention – one that Thomas Jefferson himself had championed. He wanted America ...

A new review of U.S. infrastructure, science, and manufacturing reveals that America relies heavily on the metric system behind the scenes. From medicine to engineering, most critical sectors operate ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’ve met a lot of people and learned a lot ...