Thursday, May 10, 2007

It's Not Easy Being Green


Our college kid has a summer job doing research. He will do six weeks at a Chinese University then return with his Chinese student partner to Minnesota . He tried to explain the China project but I can’t comprehend it. The research he will do in Minnesota tests treated waste water from his college for anti-depressants.
It is a different world. These drugs are widely prescribed and probably taken by many college students. After a trip through the kidneys they exit in the sewer. His University has three lakes and I would have thought they could observe the frogs to see if the titer was too high for Prozac. I believe these amphibians are sensitive to environmental changes. If they (the frogs) are looking too happy the Prozac level might need to be filtered out. If they are singing too loud and slurring their croaks, campus police might make rounds a little more often checking for keg parties.

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