Jeff Wise
| Jeff Wise | |
|---|---|
 Jeff Wise.jpg Wise in 2016 | |
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | American |
| 🏫 Education | Harvard University |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist and author |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Sandra Garcia |
| http://jeffwise.net | |
Jeff Wise is an American author and television journalist. 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[edit]
Jeff Wise graduated from Harvard with a degree in evolutionary biology.[1]
Career[edit]
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
Print and digital publications[edit]
As of 2016, Jeff Wise has written one book and two shorter electronic-only publications:
- Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger (2009)[4]—book, 256 pages
- The Plane That Wasn't There: Why We Haven't Found Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (2015)[5]—e-publication, 95 pages
- Fatal Descent: Andreas Lubitz and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 (2015)[6]—e-publication, 61 pages
Television[edit]
Jeff Wise has appeared as himself in several TV series and one TV movie, exploring and explaining science and history. His on-camera appearances[7] are:
- TV Series Chelsea (2016): 1 episode
- TV Series Your Bleeped Up Brain (2013): 2 episodes
- TV Series The Indestructibles (2011): 2 episodes
- TV Movie Gates of Hell (2010)
- TV Series MH370: The Plane That Disappeared (2023)
He also produced the TV documentary:
Scientific views[edit]
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."[8]
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.”[8]
Personal life[edit]
Wise is married and has two sons.[4][1] He is an amateur pilot and lives in New York City.[9]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "About the Author". Jeff Wise. Archived from the original on October 26, 2016. Retrieved March 5, 2017.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Wise, Jeff (2009). Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger (Hardcover ed.). New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-0230614390. Search this book on
- ↑ 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. Search this book on
- ↑ Wise, Jeff (2015). Fatal Descent: Andreas Lubitz and the Crash of Germanwings Flight 9525 (Kindle Single ed.). Search this book on
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 "Jeff Wise (IV)". IMDb. IMDb.com, Inc. Archived from the original on March 10, 2017. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 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.
- ↑ "Jeff Wise". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers, LLC. Archived from the original on October 25, 2016. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
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