Designing Groot’s Crotch For Guardians Was “Incredibly Difficult”  

How do you cover the tree privates of a gigantic, naked plant creature such as Groot? The nether regions of everyone’s favorite one-worded Guardian certainly provided a lot of problems for the Guardians of the Galaxy design team. The Globe and Mail has a fascinating step-by-step Groot breakdown from GOTG visual effects supervisor Nicolas Aithadi,…

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After 8 centuries, rats exonerated in spread of Black Death. Gerbils implicated. – The Washington Post

A gerbil (Rodrique Ngowi/AP) After nearly eight centuries of accusing the black rat for spreading the bubonic plague, scientists say they have compelling evidence to exonerate the much-maligned rodent. In the process, they’ve identified a new culprit: gerbils. It’s always the cute ones you have to watch out for, isn’t it? According to a study published in the…

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Rules Eased for Startups Benefit Established Firms Too – WSJ

Federal lawmakers eased decades-old U.S. securities regulations in 2012 in the name of eliminating red tape for young startups. But now another breed of business is angling to take advantage of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act: publicly traded companies, some of which have been in business for many years. Salon Media Group Inc., a 19-year-old…

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