You will all recall the passage in 'Atlas' where the heroine takes a bit of time to meditate. Do a bit of croshay does she? Read some Mills and Boon perhaps? No? No. What Dangney Taggart does to relax while she's 'a million miles away' doing a bit of soul searching is to make thunder. Using her second-nature mathematical knowledge she ad libs her way around the boulder field in the backyard- rigging up balances and pullies to heave huge stones through the air like vollyballs.

That's what this reminds me of...

Link: http://j-walkblog.com/index.php?/weblog/posts/moving_big_rocks/

I've always thought that if I were involved in some kind of Ayn Rand convention I'd want one of the activities to be like this. Using the intelligence to move matter. Who wants to sit inside and listen to fusty talk about political economy when you could be outside throwing boulders through the blue sky?

The above You Tube is a bit more tame, but no less intelligent. We assume those who made Stone Henge must have used some man mussle powered version of our own mechanical techniques. Genius advances by refusing to accept such assumptions- but this is another post for another day.

[Tips to http://www.dianahsieh.com/blog/2007/03/modern-stonehenge.html]