At a Reform UK press conference this week, Robert Jenrick and Nigel Farage launched a new Reform UK policy document, which includes a pledge to “Fully re-legalise Imperial units”.
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How can you tell a hard-boiled egg from a fresh egg? The answer is simple – you spin them. The fresh egg will come to rest a lot quicker than the hard-boiled egg. The reason? When spinning a fresh egg, the friction between the yolk and the shell causes a loss of rotational energy within the egg thus slowing it down. In the same way, friction between the earth’s core and the earth’s mantle and the friction between the tides and the seabed causes the earth to slow down, albeit slowly.
Continue reading “Changes to the Definition of the Time of Day”The UK is unique among European countries for its continued use of imperial units on road signs. Its road signs are almost exclusively imperial. The use of miles, yards, feet and inches dominates UK road signs whereas the rest of Europe, excluding the crown dependencies in the British Isles, uses metres and kilometres on road signs.
This is the not the only area where the UK is an outlier compared to the rest of Europe. Many other areas of British life are exceptional or highly unusual compared to the rest of Europe. These areas are described in this article.
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