July 10, 2025
While we are just talking milliseconds, the earth's rotation changes the length of the day enough to need leap seconds.
April 15, 2025
An example of the economic need for standardization, Pantone's color of the year gives our color palette a common denominator.
December 27, 2024
About much more than a bird, chicken economics follows the development and production path that most products follow.
April 4, 2024
Having standardized time on earth with Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), now we need the equivalent for lunar time.
March 13, 2024
While the new SEC environmental disclosure rules detail companies' emissions reporting, standardization will be tough.
June 14, 2023
Whether looking at cell phones or cars, we see "less friction" when we have a common charger that diminishes clutter, inefficiency, and cost.
February 1, 2023
At Chipotle or Panera Bread, we might see the carbon footprint food labels that are starting to proliferate.
October 7, 2022
No longer waiting for electronics device makers to voluntarily create standardized chargers, the EU Parliament proceeded with a mandate.
July 15, 2022
When we do not clearly indicate if we are using the metric system or the Imperial System, then we could have catastrophic measuring mixups.
December 7, 2021
Looking at this year's most popular emojis like Tears of Joy, we can see that small images can become big messages.
August 6, 2021
February 28, 2021
By standardizing color through a number for each hue, one firm boosted accuracy for millions of businesses and consumers.