The History of Timekeeping (Radio Edit)
You're Dead to Me
The Morality of Time Management
The idea of wasting time has been hammered into us for hundreds of years. Puritan pastor and theologian Richard Baxter said, if you idle away this life, will God ever give you another here? So is it any wonder that we've got all of these time management apps which exhort us to fill up time? What are you doing this weekend? What you've got no plans? You're a loser. The iconic gesture for time is running out. Is he tap your watch, right? Well, they've been around for a few centuries, but they were really jewellery worn by wealthy women. Queen Elizabeth I of England famously had a watch set into a bracelet. In the 19
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