Archivos diarios: 13 de diciembre de 2004

Según I4U, la PSP saldría en las tiendas japonesas al equivalente de unos 189 dólares, que son (el euro está muy bien con respecto al dólar, lo que me recuerda que debería ir a Amazon a pillar unos libros) alrededor de 145 euros. Evidentemente, no llegará a nuestras tiendas con semejante precio. Es más, parece que emprededores jóvenes japoneses están vendiendo sus consolas en eBay: ¡por 780 dólares!

I4U News – Sony PSP in Stores in Japan

The lucky Japanese Consumers get the Sony PSP for $189. Reuters reports that 200,000 PSPs are in stores right now.

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Los bonobos son mis primates favoritos, y parece que la caza ilegal está acabando con ellos. Un estudio indica una cifra de ejemplares menor de la esperada.

news@nature.com – Bonobos face extinction

Researchers from the Congolese Institute for Nature Conservation and the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society have surveyed around a third of the 36,000-square-kilometre Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. They did not see a single bonobo (Pan paniscus) in the flesh, and evidence from nests and dung suggests that the apes have become very scarce.

If the survey results represent a more general trend, there may be as few as 10,000 bonobos, also called pygmy chimpanzees, left in the wild, the researchers estimate. Experts had previously thought that there might be around 50,000 remaining.

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Ojo, que no lo digo yo, que lo dice toda una universidad.

die puny humans:

Around 465 people were tested on their mental abilities in 1947 when they were aged 11. They were then tested a second time between 2002 and 2002, when they reached the age of 64. On this occasion they underwent tests to evaluate their non-verbal reasoning, memory and learning, how quickly they processed information, decisions about how to act in particular circumstances and construction tasks.