The Measure of Things Press Mentions
“Goalline technology showed the ball was 11.7mm away from crossing the line. Or about the width of a headache tablet. Or nine grains of sand...”
“...Plaza de España, a semicircular, architectural extravaganza about the size of 10 American football fields...”
“They estimate the stock of empty houses nationwide at about 20 billion square feet, about two-and-a-half times the area of New York City.”
“Whatever it is, it's big... roughly 6 billion Empire State Buildings — or five times more than the Big Island of Hawaii.”
“Forty tons may seem like a lot – it’s equivalent in weight to about 24 cars, or 6.5 fully grown elephants.”
“2,700 liters of water... That roughly works out at 17 bathtubs.”
“It would take 970 acre feet of water to fill the Astrodome in Houston, according to the Measure of Things...”
“...the average wasp stinger was about 2.5 millimeters long (or about twice the width of a grain of sand)...”