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2006-09-15 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Freshwater mussels not doing so good on Prozac in waterways

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Posted by Alaska Paul 2006-09-15 15:28|| || Front Page|| [8 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Interesting. What about the effect on zebra mussels (a fresh-water "invasive species")?

Posted by Spot">Spot 2006-09-15 15:51|| 2006-09-15 15:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Your tax dollars at work. And tell me again about how we can't afford to improve (choose one): port security, the air traffic control system, the interstate highway system, border security. But we can study zoned out bivalves...

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-09-15 16:00|| 2006-09-15 16:00|| Front Page Top

#3 This is a big deal. The whole prescription drug industry is eventually coming under fire for this dilution/pollution.

Posted by Snereting Omeretch6894 2006-09-15 20:34|| 2006-09-15 20:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Too tranked out to get it on. Poor little critters. And, yes, this is a huge problem.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-15 23:08|| 2006-09-15 23:08|| Front Page Top

#5 why are so many people on prozac to begin with?

I'm thinking the stresses of modern life are pushing us humans out of our operating range.

We have parameters: we were not designed to work 50-hour weeks and then again on weekends. Sitting in a desk chair.

Obesity a major problem, mental health a major problem.

Loneliness a major problem.

People were originally social, tribal beings who worked and hunted and fished, then sat around the campfire talking and socialising with extended family at night. Extended family helped with child rearing.

We have gone too far from what we evolved to do and it's causing problems.

I reckon for our own mental health we need to cut down working hours: job share for example. This helps cut the unemployment rate and makes work more fun than stressful. Maybe we need to take lower wages but the upshot is we have more time to spend with family. More people feel involved in the community and less people take prozac.

We need to change our ways I think this is a marker or indicator that all is not well with us, not just the freshwater mussels.

Posted by anon1 2006-09-15 23:57|| 2006-09-15 23:57|| Front Page Top

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