![]() ![]() The trip was an extension of her thesis at Oxford, which was a study of how borders define and impact wilderness, and the basis for her debut book Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road. Kate went from small-town Ontario to studying the history of science and exploration at Oxford, to a PhD program at MIT, before shedding the rigors of academia and launching on a different exploration: a 6,000-mile bicycle journey along the Silk Road with her childhood friend, Mel Yule. Earth had been mapped, space was the great unknown, and she was determined to explore it. Her dream, she told them, was to travel to the red planet and find new knowledge, to inspire young scientists and push the boundaries of possibility. We have the technology, she told Bill Clinton, Jean Chrétien, Tony Blair, and others, but we lack the political will. When Kate Harris was 17 years old, she wrote an impassioned letter to 22 world leaders, imploring them to send humanity to Mars. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women. ![]()
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