How long is a coastline? That depends. Do you measure around all those rocks jutting out from the beach? Do you measure the inside of a harbor? Do you take shortcuts when the coast is really jagged? And what about island...
https://www.neatorama.com/2018/03/07/The-Coastline-Paradox/Why does America still use the Fahrenheit system t... ...of the ways Americans are holdovers for imperial measurements , when the rest of the world is using the metric s...
https://www.neatorama.com/2017/08/29/Why-America-Still-Uses-Fahrenheit/The following article is from Uncle John’s F... ...ebie”? Here are a few more strange units of measurement (and one very serious one) that you may not be fa... ...at people around NASA derisively created the garn measurement from his name. “Most guys will get maybe to... ...illions and Billi...
https://www.neatorama.com/2016/09/05/The-Department-of-Silly-Measurements/[http://youtu.be/fD58Bt2gj78] (YouTube link)Before we had clocks, our concept of the passage of time wasn’t measured in minutes or hours. But now we don’t know any other way to think about it. And the develop...
https://www.neatorama.com/2015/02/19/How-Clocks-Changed-Us/[http://youtu.be/r7x-RGfd0Yk] (YouTube link)Matt P... ...how logical and intuitive our imperial system of measurement is. Why would anyone want to give up such a wonde... ...agine if he got started on imperial liquid volume measurements , such nonsense could go on all day. However, Park...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/11/27/Are-Imperial-Measurements-Outdated/The world’s most perfect weight isn’t... ...The kilogram was just one of seven standards of measurement established by the French Academy of Sciences in... ...the only constant was complete chaos.While basing measurements on tangible benchmarks was an improvement, using... ...t this is long over...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/09/06/Le-Grand-K-The-Perfect-Kilogram/Measurement Conversion SpatulaCould you use a little help rea... ...international cookbook? You need the handy dandy Measurement Conversion Spatula from the NeatoShop. This great... ...l features a silicone head that is printed with a measurement conversion chart. Now all thos...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/16/Measurement-Conversion-Spatula/It took me years and years of cooking and canning with inadequate measuring utensils and obsolete recipes to memorize how many teaspoons are in an ounce (which is 1/8 of a cup). All that would have been easier with this...
https://www.neatorama.com/2013/04/04/How-Many-Guide/Tiny cannons, Mr. Tornado, and a fail-proof test f... ...onsidered the first person to establish empirical measurements of very fuzzy assessments of regard and affection... ...pair created the first widely accepted empirical measurement of intellect and mental abilities. The Binet-Simo...
https://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/10/10-Scales-Worth-Posting-an-Article-About/(Image credit: Flickr user Patrick Emerson) by... ...€śflatter than a pancake” after making detailed measurements of the cosmic background radiation. 3. “Comp...
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