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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s no secret that Americans have an independence streak. We don’t use the metric system. We insist on writing dates with the month before the day—something virtually no other country does. And we ...

The argument FOR metric (as illustrated in your OP), is that meters converts logically into kilometers, like all other weights and measures of the metric system. However, that argument loses when ...