Recently, a new carnival called The Giant's Shoulders has been started and the first edition of the same is out at A blog around the clock. A post of mine on the elastic stresses due to inclusions and inhomogeneities made it to the carnival. I am cross-posting the piece here since it might also be of interest to the readers of iMechanica (though I did post a short note earlier here which forms the core of this long post too).