“REMEMBER mom, the best thing is not always the obvious thing, ” my seven-year-old solemnly said to me suddenly one evening.
This sudden nugget of "Hello Ninja" wisdom stuck with me, and in fact, later made me realise that the worst thing is also not always the obvious thing.
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Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah
Dr Khayriyyah Mohd Hanafiah is an honorary fellow at Macfarlane Burnet Institute (Melbourne, Australia) and an alum of the Young Scientists Network-Academy of Sciences Malaysia. She is active in science communication and infectious disease biomedical research. She was the first female Asian champion of FameLab, the world’s longest running science communication competition, in 2018. The writer’s views are her own.
