Try to imagine a life without timekeeping. You probably can't. You know the month, the year, the day of the week.There's a clock on your wall or the dashboard of your car. You have a schedule, a calendar, a time for dinner, or a movie. Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored.Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. A deer do not fret over passing birthdays.Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures ...

RT Proudofus.uk (@ProudofusUK)In 1707, two thousand sailors DROWNED.Not because of a storm.Because nobody could tell where they were at sea 🇬🇧This was the longitude problem. The deadliest puzzle in science.Parliament offered £20,000 to anyone who could solve it.Nearly four million today.Every great scientist in Europe tried. Newton. Halley. The finest minds alive.All of them failed.The man who solved it was a carpenter from Yorkshire.His name was John Harrison.No formal education. No university. No wealthy ...