Brent Maynard, a 41-year-old Moosup resident, is beginning to see his dreams become a reality. Since he was 14, Maynard has been fascinated with the metric system, a system he believes is more logical ...

The humorist Dave Barry has more than once suggested "millipedes" as an imaginary unit of measurement (for example, 120 miles = 2,342,424,323.3432 millipedes), poking fun at the inscrutability of the ...