December 23, 2025, marks the 50th anniversary of the Metric Conversion Act, designed to bring US weights and measures in line with the rest of the world. The United States is one of the last holdouts ...

Former President Gerald Ford signed the Metric Conversion Act 50 years ago. However, he did not make metric adoption mandatory, and the efforts fell flat. For a look at where metric measurements have ...

A draft bill banning gay conversion practices, also known as gay conversion therapy, will be published before the end of the current parliamentary session next spring, the government has told Sky News ...

Google’s new “Original Conversion Value” metric gives advertisers long-needed clarity by revealing the true, unadjusted revenue their campaigns generate. A new column called “Original Conversion Value ...

Dariusz Jemielniak is Vice-President of the Polish Academy of Sciences, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University, and Professor at Kozminski ...

Editor's note: If you or someone you know may be considering suicide or is in crisis, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline. The Supreme Court hears arguments Tuesday in a case about ...

The practice surged in the 1980s and 1990s, before medical groups began warning it was harmful. By Ellen Barry As a teenager, Julie Rodgers attended Tuesday night group therapy sessions in which young ...

The United States is one of just three countries that "prefers" imperial measurements over the international metric standard. The motivation why has less to do with official policy than you might ...

The Supreme Court conversion therapy case, Chiles v. Salazar, involves a hate group defending psychological torture as a "religious right." After years of refusing to hear such cases, the Supreme ...

Google is rolling out a new way to measure upper-funnel impact. Branded Searches — a conversion type first teased at Google Marketing Live 2025 – is now live. Why it matters. Advertisers can now ...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled that a legislative committee's rejection of a ban on conversion therapy was unconstitutional. The decision gives more power to the governor and less to the Republican ...