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Welcome to the science podcast for February 9, 2018. I'm Sarah Crespi. In this week's show, David Grimm discusses lab animal happiness. What if standardizing

lab animals' environment has made them less useful for science? Should we enrich the lives of zebrafish,

rats, rabbits, mice, so that they're more like people? And John Abbott is here to talk about

indoor chemistry, even though some of us

spend 90% of our time indoors, it turns out we don't understand much about the chemistry of the

environment inside buildings. Now we have David Grimm, editor for our daily news site.

He's here to talk about his recent feature story on Lab Animal Happiness.

Hi, Dave.

Hey, sir.

Okay, your feature asks questions like, should we make Lab Animals happy?

How can we tell if they're happy?

And what happens if they are happy? Let's talk about first why they might not

be so happy right now. Well, happiness is a very subjective term, but what animal facility

managers and labs have focused on in the past is welfare. Are these guys healthy? Do they seem

healthy? And are they free of disease? Now that is obviously not the same

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