Oh, America. You do so confuse the rest of the world, with your “pounds per square inch” and “cups”, instead of sensible ...

Every once in a while, you may see a temperature in Celsius instead of Fahrenheit. Your car thermometer may revert to the wrong system and you don’t know how to change it, for example. Since almost ...

212°F is the boiling point of water at sea level. The scale is widely used in the United States, some Caribbean countries, and a few others. It remains common in weather reports, household ...

Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Fahrenheit is superior because it is more descriptive in human livable conditions. There's more subtlety to it than Celsius. There are more whole number points in human livable conditions in ...