Josh and Chuck, joined briefly by Jerry, explore the fascinating history of timekeeping, tracing humanity’s journey from observing shadows cast by sticks in the ground to the invention of atomic clocks. What began as a way to track seasons and celestial events evolved into precise mechanica
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