[noahlt]

> many materials — including graphene, frogs and pliers — can exhibit similar magnetic behaviour.

I'm sorry, FROGS!?

I looked this up and it's very fun: https://www.ru.nl/hfml/research/levitation-explained/diamagn...

[adw]

Yes, resulting in Andre Geim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_Geim) having the best possible scientific resume:

- the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize for frog levitation:

- the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene.

[h2odragon]

"There were no worlds left to conquer"

After that, where do you go? Write poetry? Go start a turkey farm?

[michael_nielsen]

There's a great video of a frog (and several other items) floating in a strong magnetic field, from 1997: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlJsVqc0ywM&ab_channel=APArc...

Lots of objects are diamagnetic, including human beings, and can potentially be made to float in a strong magnetic field.