In prehistoric times, not much needed to be measured. You ate what you found and lived where you could. The […] ...

Male gardener, brown hair, red t-shirt: Well, gardening involves measuring the length of lots of things. In this instance I'm measuring out a path that's 4 m long, and when I can find it ...

6 feet? Of course that doesn't mean he has 6 feet. It means he's 6 feet tall, which is an old way of measuring length. Feet and inches. We can also measure him using centimetres. 6 feet is the ...