Reviews Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, eds. Share this:EmailFacebookTwitterPinterestPocketRedditPrint By Science News March 27, 2009 at 1:45 pm Standards are a fact of life, from cradle to coffin size.Cornell Univ., 2009, 244 p., $22.95. Standards and Their Stories: How Quantifying, Classifying, and Formalizing Practices Shape Everyday Life by Martha Lampland and Susan Leigh Star, eds.