In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The advent of agriculture and civilization, however, necessitated a way for people to measure ...

Weights, measures and classification systems may seem like innocuous ways of taking stock of the world around us. But the tools are anything but objective, a new exhibition suggests. Measuring ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover global and domestic health care and conservation. This is part two of a three-part series on the critical role quality ...

“Beyond Measure,” by James Vincent, tells the story of human civilization through its systems of measurement, showing how they have promoted knowledge, social control and ongoing conflict. By Jennifer ...

Vincent, a senior reporter at the Verge, debuts with a phenomenal exploration of measurement, the “cornerstone of cognition” that “has not only made the world we live in, it has made us too.” He ...

Imagine a prisoner in a cell, tabulating time served. Those groups of four lines crossed with a diagonal fifth have a long history. It stretches back to the Wolf Bone, found in what is now the Czech ...

Precision: The Measure of All Things is a three-part British television series outlining aspects of the history of measurement. It was originally aired in June 2013 on BBC Four. The series comprised ...