Jeff Wise is a contributing editor at Popular Mechanics and the author of Extreme Fear: The Science of Your Mind in Danger, as well as a contributor to magazines such as Psychology Today, where this article first appeared. He writes on the subjects of psychology, fear, aviation, and technology. Perhaps not surprisingly, Wise is also an airplane and glider pilot. From a quick Google Image search of his name, he doesn’t appear to be a hipster.
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