what i mean is.... i've been told that midwest folk use time to measure distances (eg: that's about 15 minutes away), and the rest of the US pretty much uses miles (eg: that's about 10 miles up the ...

It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck on a tiny rock, peering through glass at dots of light. We can’t exactly pull out a ...

Google Maps now gives users the ability to measure the distance between two or more locations simply my placing markers down on a map. The feature, available only in Maps on the web for now, lets ...