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Hello and welcome back to BigMood, LittleMood. I am your host, Daniel M. Lavery, and with

me this week in the studio is Melissa Hughes, an R&D scientist who designs medical tests.

She also for fun climbs, paints, reads books, about the many ways systems are broken and

tries to figure out what happiness can look like here and now. So some ambitious downtime.

And Melissa is here having answered a recent call that I put out for more scientists to

befriend me. I think that's how I put it, right? I just said scientists, contact me.

I think you literally said chemist and I was like, well, that's really me.

That sounds exactly right and you just knew you were like, this is my moment. My time has

come.

Yeah, when opportunity knocks, you answer.

Is there a particular aspect of chemistry that you think is going to be useful today

as we tackle some of the questions in front of us?

I mean, actually for the last question, I was like, I don't know about this. Let me Google

an academic paper and see if I can have some more information.

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