PsyBlog has this interesting listing of practical uses of pshchological research. Check it out.
Category: JustLikeThat
Converting AVI to DVD or VCD
I have been using this freeware called Avi2Dvd to convert AVI media files to DVD & VCDs. It uses other freeware applications to do what it does & provides a easy to use interface for conversions.
Neat one to have on your application list if you don’t want to get your hands too dirty with format conversions.
http://www.trustfm.net/divx/SoftwareAvi2Dvd.php?b2=1
Mathemagician – Arthur Benjamin
Arthur Benjamin is both a professor of mathematics and a magician. After wowing the audience with some amazing feats of calculation, he is happy to reveal his secrets. Seemingly impossible problems can often be broken down into more tractable steps and phonetic codes that can be held in memory and processed quickly. Benjamin explores these steps, giving examples of how he is able to multiply large numbers together, or pinpoint the day of the week of any birthday in any year.
You have to listen to this act of his on IT Conversations.
http://itc.conversationsnetwork.org/shows/detail3501.html
Earth Day
Though I have wanted to watch An Inconvenient Truth for a long time, I managed to actually watch it only today. Thanks to HBO. I strongly urge all you folks to see this movie …again if you have to. It is real & we better act fast.
Coming to the action part, if you are in Bangalore, you might want to check on http://www.treesforfree.org/.