Warwick Cairns lives in Windsor with his wife, two daughters and two dogs. He is the author of 3 books. About the Size of It is about how the world’s systems of weights and measures have been shaped by the fact most of us have better things to think about. How to Live Dangerously is [...]
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The world’s traditional weights and measures are amongst the few remaining living links we still have with our most distant ancestors – from the pre-literate tribesmen who would measure the height of their livestock with the width of their hands to the invaders from Rome who counted out their marches in thousand-pace units, the mille passus, our mile – And I cannot for the life of me understand how abolishing all of this in favour of a made-up system designed for tidy-minded bureaucrats is anything but the most shocking and ignorant cultural vandalism.
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