http://herebetreasures.com Highlights from the web Sat, 17 Jul 2010 09:22:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 http://herebetreasures.com/economics/the-eco-cost-of-spam/ http://herebetreasures.com/economics/the-eco-cost-of-spam/#comments Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:32:17 +0000 Martin http://herebetreasures.com/?p=1231 The Economist reports on the costs of sending emails, and the huge environmental impact of the never-ending waves of spam that we must deal with.

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But Argentina is going through this exact problem right now. Some speculate that citizens are hoarding the coins because inflation is pushing the value of the metal in the coin above the face value of the coin. James Surowiecki reports on the ‘change’ in Buenos Aires.

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