Jeff Wise

Jeff Wise
Nationality United States
Education Harvard University
Occupation Journalist and author
Spouse(s) Sandra Garcia
Website http://jeffwise.net

Jeff Wise is an American author and television journalist who currently lives in New York City. His main topics are science, technology, aviation, and adventure.

He is the author of the book Extreme Fear and has had articles published in: Bloomberg Businessweek, The Huffington Post, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal, National Geographic Adventure, Nautilus, New York, The New York Times, Popular Mechanics, Psychology Today, Slate, Time, and Travel + Leisure.

Education

Jeff Wise graduated from Harvard with a degree in evolutionary biology.[1]

Career

Jeff Wise began his freelance writing career after graduating from college, at first focusing on travel and adventure.[1] In a 2010 podcast interview, he describes why he switched fields from biology to journalism:

“I wasn’t so interested in the test tube work or going out and spending five years investigating the life cycle of a barnacle, but the story of the life cycle of the barnacle can be absolutely fascinating. So, I was very happy to spend … a half an hour reading the paragraph (or whatever it may be) about the barnacle. But, I didn’t want to be the guy in the boat watching the barnacle.”[2][3]:2:28

As of 2016, Jeff Wise has written one book and two shorter electronic-only publications:

Wise's extensive print and web news magazine writing includes the following topics:

Television

Jeff Wise has appeared as himself in several TV series and one TV movie, exploring and explaining science and history. His on-camera appearances[37] are:

He also produced the TV documentary:

Scientific views

Jeff Wise advocates scientific materialism and has explained in an interview with Alex Tsakiris in 2010, using Freud as an example, that a successful explanatory theory requires a mechanism:

“[A] scientific theory is something that tries to increase our understanding by making a prediction, by saying ‘Okay, we’re going to say that the earth orbits around the sun, therefore we would expect to see this motion of the planets,’ or something like that. I think the thing that’s often overlooked is that the theory requires a mechanism. And I think this is why Freud ultimately I think was cast aside, because Freud had a lot of interesting ideas and suppositions about how the brain works, but he never offered any mechanisms.”[38]

In the same interview, discussing the difference between science and popular, but non-scientific, ideas, Wise said:

“When you mention these guys who claim that they’ve found evidence that near-death experiences cannot be explained through materialistic explanations and so forth, it’s not that I’m afraid to look into it. But it doesn’t really fit into my schema for how I basically have come to conclude the world works. It’s not fear so much as it doesn’t really mesh into how I believe the world fundamentally works.”[38]

Political views

Dismayed by the Trump presidency, administration, and Republican control of Congress, Jeff Wise has tweeted:

Personal life

Jeff Wise is married to Sandra Garcia[4] and has two sons.[1] He is an amateur pilot and lives in New York City.[41]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "About the Author". Jeff Wise. Archived from the original on 26 October 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2017.
  2. ↑ "New York Academy of Sciences Podcast". The New York Academy of Sciences. The New York Academy of Sciences. 19 February 2010. Archived from the original (Podcast) on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "New York Academy of Sciences Podcast" (MP3). The New York Academy of Sciences. The New York Academy of Sciences. 19 February 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2017.
  4. 1 2 Wise, Jeff (2009). Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger (Hardcover ed.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230614390.
  5. ↑ Wise, Jeff (2015). The Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (Kindle Single ed.). The Yellow Cabin Press.
  6. ↑ Wise, Jeff (2015). Fatal Descent: Andreas Lubitz and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 (Kindle Single ed.).
  7. ↑ Wise, Jeff (14 August 2010). "John Graybill's National Geographic Adventure Profile". Jeff Wise. Jeff Wise. Archived from the original on 7 May 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  8. ↑ Wise, Jeff (18 August 2010). "Graybill crash is 'end of an era'". Alaska Star. Alaska Star. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  9. ↑ Wise, Jeff (5 December 2016). "How Donald Trump's Private Plane Compares to Air Force One". The Hollywood Reporter. The Hollywood Reporter. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  10. ↑ Wise, Jeff (14 February 2014). "How Airbus Is Debugging the A350". Bloomberg. Bloomberg. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  11. ↑ Wise, Jeff (9 April 2015). "Fear in the Cockpit". Nautilus. NautilusThink Inc. Archived from the original on 8 November 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  12. ↑ Wise, Jeff (6 December 2011). "What Really Happened Aboard Air France 447". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 26 December 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  13. 1 2 3 "Jeff Wise, Science Journalist". The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Archived from the original on 22 February 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  14. 1 2 3 "Jeff Wise". Slate. The Slate Group. Archived from the original on 13 November 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  15. ↑ Wise, Jeff (25 October 2013). "How to Become a Pilot". Men's Journal. Men's Journal LLC. Archived from the original on 21 August 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  16. ↑ Wise, Jeff (25 May 2012). "How to Fly a Helicopter—Upside Down". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  17. ↑ Wise, Jeff (25 May 2011). "Brain Function: The Strange Lives of Women With No Fear". The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  18. ↑ Wise, Jeff (23 December 2016). "Why We Love Speed". New York. New York Media LLC. Archived from the original on 25 December 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  19. ↑ Wise, Jeff (20 March 2010). "A Strange Calm in a Sea of Danger". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  20. ↑ Wise, Jeff (18 November 2011). "13 Ways to Knock Fear Out of Your Life". Men's Health. Rodale Inc. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  21. ↑ Wise, Jeff (9 January 2012). "Fearing Well: There are plenty of things to be afraid of. So choose carefully.". Time. Time Inc. Archived from the original on 13 August 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  22. ↑ Wise, Jeff (3 May 2010). "Top Ten Secrets of Effective Liars". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  23. ↑ Wise, Jeff (25 May 2011). "What is Nihilism, Anyway? A Chat With Sean D. Kelly, Co-author of All Things Shining". The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Archived from the original on 27 June 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  24. ↑ Wise, Jeff (27 January 2017). "When Pleasure Makes Us Hate Ourselves". New York. New York Media LLC. Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  25. ↑ Wise, Jeff (9 November 2012). "The Invisible Psychopath". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  26. ↑ Wise, Jeff (16 November 2010). "7 Essential Steps to Mastering Temptation". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Archived from the original on 8 March 2017. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  27. ↑ Wise, Jeff (25 May 2011). "Could a Sendai-Sized Quake Hit the US?". The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Archived from the original on 10 May 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  28. ↑ Wise, Jeff (18 July 2012). "Swamp Buggy Drive Through the Everglades". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  29. 1 2 "Jeff Wise (Search)". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  30. ↑ Wise, Jeff (7 May 2013). "Dancing with a Madman". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  31. ↑ Wise, Jeff (22 December 2016). "Supersonic Underwater Travel May Be Coming Soon". New York. New York Media LLC. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  32. ↑ Wise, Jeff (14 August 2013). "Stranded at Sea, Without a Boat: A True Story". Men's Journal. Men's Journal LLC. Archived from the original on 15 January 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  33. ↑ Wise, Jeff (17 December 2009). "How to Survive in the Wild for 72 Hours: I'll Try Anything". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  34. ↑ Wise, Jeff (19 August 2010). "How to Hunt Like a Caveman". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 19 December 2016. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  35. ↑ "Jeff Wise Search Results". Travel + Leisure. Time Inc. Affluent Media Group. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  36. ↑ Wise, Jeff (25 January 2011). "Swimming With Beluga Whales". Popular Mechanics. Hearst Communications, Inc. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  37. 1 2 "Jeff Wise (IV)". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. Archived from the original on 10 March 2017. Retrieved 10 March 2017.
  38. 1 2 Tsakiris, Alex (6 May 2010). "103. Near-Death Experience Research — Do Science Journalists Get it Wrong?". Skeptiko. Archived from the original on 16 March 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  39. 1 2 3 4 "Jeff Wise @ManvBrain". Twitter. Twitter, Inc. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  40. 1 2 "Jeff Wise @ManvBrain". Twitter. Twitter, Inc. Archived from the original on 26 February 2017. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
  41. ↑ "Jeff Wise". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Archived from the original on 25 October 2016. Retrieved 28 March 2017.
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