MATERIAL FROM CLASS 17: Monday November 6

This frog is floating, held up by a magnetic field about as strong as that used in magnetic resonance imaging, 16 tesla. "If you have a magnet that is big enough, you could levitate a human," says Peter Main, one of the researchers at the Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory. He adds that the frog did not seem to suffer any ill effects: "It went back to its fellow frogs looking perfectly happy." (New Scientist magazine, 12 April 1997, page 13).

From the Onion, which usually gets its science right:
"I'm Going To Be A Star" by Protostellar Molecular Cloud Barnard 631.