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Measure!

Measure: Measure What?

Measure: The Metric System Explained

Measure: The Small and The Big

Measure: What's the Temperature?

Measure: Beard-Seconds and Mega-Fonzies

Measure: Mass vs. Weight

  • Measure What?
  • |
  • The Metric System Explained
  • |
  • The Small and The Big
  • |
  • What's the Temperature?
  • |
  • Beard-Seconds and Mega-Fonzies
  • |
  • Mass vs. Weight
Measure ['me-zhǝr]
To find or show the size of something.

We humans measure just about anything and everything. It is a way to determine how much you have or how much you don’t have. But how and what we measure is quite a story.

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