Photo by Nils Geylen. Thanks! Calling all metric system nerds and Seattle history heads: today is the 217th anniversary of the day the French National Assembly said "Go!" to an official effort to create a metric system. In 1795, France voted the new "meter" into effect as the national unit of measurement and hasn't looked back since; it took the U.S. of A. until 1988 to pass a similar resolution and, 20 years later,......

Sixty University of Washington professors have signed an open letter discussing the trend of unprepared students. Science and Math teachers at the UW have noticed a rising number of their incoming students can't do basic math. Some instructors claim they've had to dumb down their classes because of the increasing lack of math skills. Professor Cliff Mass, from the Atmospheric Science Department, gathered the signatures. He was inspired to write the letter because of......