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How Many Memory Cards ‘Equal’ The Memory Capacity Of The Human Brain?

625,000 4GB memory cards is the ‘answer’ – which stacked on one another would be a tower just under 6 miles high! Human brain memory storage “equals” around 2.5 petabytes. That’s the huge amount of memory that Paul Reber, professor of psychology at Northwestern University in the US, has come up with in considering the size of the brain’s memory storage capacity. It’s all to do with the one billion neurons and the trillion connections between them, with each neuron…

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Amazing aircraft photos & 10 aviation photo tips

Are you heading to an air show this summer and want to take some quality photos of the aircraft? With the internationally famous Farnborough airshow and other displays coming up, we asked one photographer for her tips on how to get the best images. Claire Hartley has had a long-standing interest in aviation having grown up in Lincolnshire, which has been home to numerous air bases, but only really began to specialise in taking photos of aircraft in the past year…

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Hate football? 7 things you could do instead

1 Take a walk Did you know a pedometer can record the number of steps you take? More info on pedometers      2 Photography Learn a new skill or brush up on your photography – and enjoy your super pictures. Great deals on memory cards Photo and video supplies    3 Go for a bike ride There’s some seriously cool kit for cycling around these days, including bike lights. Click here for details on cycle accessories      4…

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Amazing photos from the sky: aerial kite photography

You might think that flying kites is for kids, but there is a worldwide community of photographers who use them to take kite aerial photography (KAP). Using kites and some pretty simple kit, so-called KAPers often produce stunning photos. Aerial photography: something different Kevin Lajoie is one such KAPer. He’s been using kites to take incredible images in and around the Channel Islands for the past six years. I caught up with him on a beautiful sunny day on the…

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