Sylvia Simmons

Sylvia covers the conversions people search for in the middle of doing something else — halfway through cooking, mid-project, trying to read a label from another country. She writes the way she figures things out: start with what you know, check it once more, then move on.

She's drawn to the everyday stuff. Clothing sizes across regions, recipe scaling when you're doubling or halving, gas mileage comparisons between liters-per-100km and miles-per-gallon. She likes the ones where a quick mental shortcut exists but people don't know it yet.

Her articles are for general use and she says so plainly. Anything involving medication, infant feeding, or construction tolerances gets a note to check with someone who knows the specifics of the situation.