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150 years ago, the Metre Convention determined how we measure the world — a radical initiative for the time

By Jonathan Simone, Adjunct Professor of Biological Sciences, Brock University

150 years ago, the world agreed to a shared language of measurement. It still holds us together, even when everything else seems to pull us apart.

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