Bridges in America: Faulty Infrastructure
Bridges may not quite be the backbone of infrastructure, but they certainly make up much of its skeletal system. Providing pedestrian and vehicular passageways over…
The Growing Demand of Chocolate
The consumption of chocolate is far from an emerging trend. In fact, the cultivation of cocoa beans dates back to the Mayans, when the inhabitants…
Rising Globalization Extends the Reach of Standards
A standard denotes something that is of both the expected quality and the norm. To maintain such a status, standards must be adapted continuously to…
Happy Birthday, NYC Subway!
October 27, 2016 marks the 112th anniversary of the New York City Subway, which was established on the same date in 1904. On the birthday…
The Golden Ratio: A Standard of Art, Nature, and Space-Time
The theme of World Standards Day 2016 (which is to occur on October 14, 2016) is “Standards build trust”. To represent this visually, the poster…
The Perceived Need for a Standard Language
Language is the strongest form of communication, granting human beings, merely through a series of throat-and-tongue-based utterances, the ability to convey practically anything to other…
Standardization of Money
The origin of money begins with the same event that initiated almost everything else in modern society: the onset of agriculture. At the end of…
Formation of Sand in Beaches and Industry
Few things are so synonymous with the beach that they are practically always expected to be present no matter the location of the shore-based point…
How Fireworks Became a Global Celebratory Practice
According to legend, 2,000 years ago, a cook working in a Chinese field kitchen happened to mix together charcoal, sulfur, and saltpeter, all common kitchen…