A journalist who tells science stories with a human lens, Jessica Wapner’s recent bylines include The New Yorker, Wired, the Washington Post, and Popular Science, among others. Former science editor for Newsweek, she is the author of the newly published “Wall Disease: The Psychological Toll of Living Up Against a Border first book,” as well as “The Philadelphia Chromosome,” which was named a top-ten nonfiction book by the Wall Street Journal.