Read the rest of Retirement home in China emphasizes communal living in a natural setting
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Read the rest of Step into the fairytale world of the Brothers Grimm with these amazing landscape photos
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Photographer Renee Bergeron is a superhero, being the mother of 14 children. She began, as many parents do, capturing her own children in photos. Her son Apollo, who was born with a double aortic arch and who has bravely endured multiple surgeries and medical setbacks, fancies himself a superhero, so naturally, Bergeron snapped photos of him donning his cape. Apollo enjoyed the photos so much that Bergeron realized she needed to capture more images of pint-sized superheroes with special needs. Thus was born her Superhero Project, in which the photographer offers her services at no charge to families of special children who need a little extra encouragement to feel super.
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Solar Impulse 2, the solar-powered aircraft with room for only one person, lifted off from China at 2:39am local time May 31, beginning the five-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Hawaii. This news comes three weeks after the original departure date, which was pushed back repeatedly as dangerous storms threatened the flightplan and the pilot’s safety. This is the seventh leg of the round-the-world journey for this experimental aircraft, which uses zero fossil fuels. The adventure began in Abu Dhabi on March 9, and is expected to culminate after twelve individual flights bring the Si2 back to its starting point, setting a number of world records along the way.
Read the rest of Sun-powered Solar Impulse begins longest, most dangerous leg of round-the-world flight
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