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    NPR News Nuggets: Why The Metric System Matters & The Golden Side Of Darth Vader

    by Wynne Davis May 07, 2017 2 minutes
    A sales clerk introduces a Darth Vader mask gilded with gold leaf, produced by Japan jeweler Ginza Tanaka in Tokyo.

    Here's a quick roundup of some of the mini-moments you may have missed on this week's Morning Edition.

    Sir, do you know how fast you were going?

    There are a lot of things that get lost in translation, and apparently, speed limits are one of them. Depending on how well you know your geography, you mighthost Steve Inskeep said on Wednesday, a man was driving his car on the North Dakota side where the speed limit was 75 mph. Once he crossed over into Canada he saw that in Manitoba the the speed limit signs said 100. While the United States is one of few countries that doesn't use the metric system, a lot of people still don't make that connection when they're in different countries.

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