Mary Kate Wiles
speaker
633 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2020
last heard Dec 2020
Mary Kate Wiles’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The trees.
You can't go outside, not even for a second.
It's too dangerous.
So how do you get your Christmas tree every year?
I... I, um... Every year you write a letter.
Where does it go?
How does the letter get delivered?
How do you know about that?
How do you know about all of this?
I know everything about you, Kate.
I know you were born on the 12th of May, 1988, in Summit, New Jersey.
From an early age, it was clear that you had both a fascination with and a facility for numbers.
Your parents did everything they could to encourage your talents, as well as the Catholic faith you inherited from your mother, but they needn't have worried.
Possibly the only thing that fascinated you more than math were questions of faith.
You graduated from high school in 2006, attended Brown University, where you were a double major in quantum physics and comparative theology, doctoral work at Cambridge University.
Your thesis on the theological implications of the multiple worlds hypothesis raised a few eyebrows, but eventually they gave you the degree.
You were all set to start a teaching position at Swarthmore when, well, something remarkable happened.
You discovered that magic is real.
You finally saw the world as it is, as it's always been.
And the part of you that has longed to understand the marvels of the universe just... grew three times in size.
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