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    Half Measures

    99% Invisible · Oct 18, 2017 · 26 min
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    The United States is one of just a handful of countries that that isn’t officially metric. Instead, Americans measure things our own way, in units that are basically inscrutable to non-Americans, nearly all of whom have been brought up in … Continue re...

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