Swans on Tea

Scientific illiteracy all the rage among the glitterati
[T]op prize went to the lifestyle guru Carole Caplin for denouncing a study showing that vitamin supplements offer little or no health benefits as “rubbish” – it is the third year on the run that she has been mentioned in the review. Science author and GP Ben Goldacre [...]

Get it?
I think someone could remake Spartacus as a present-day story of a huge conglomerate, corrupted by its greed, and how it crushes an attempt by some employees to split off and form their own company. The Roman Senate becomes the board of directors/senior management, who like to make the junior employees (or interns) [...]

Rock balancing
I saw rock stacks all over the place when I visited the beaches at Monterey in October. Nothing as advanced as the ones depicted in the link, though.