March 3rd, 2008 -- A weekly look at science, engineering, and fringe science happenings from the week before! Levitation: Fact or Fiction? Pravda.run ran an interesting article on levitation. It presented a chronological history of accounts of levitation. The initial accounts were more mystically slanted including various swamis, nuns, and saints. As time progressed, the coverage moved towards anecdotal and scientific accounts. These included accounts of levitation by Daniel Douglas Hewm that were verified by people such as Mark Twain and William M. Thackeray . Finally, the article discussed modern 'scientific' example of levitation such as the Meissner effect . Another physical phenomenon that can result in levitation and was not covered in the article is diamagnetism . It was used most spectacularly to levitate a frog in the Netherlands. This experiment was carried out at the Nijmegen High Field Magnet Laboratory. The moon-bound art museum: greg.org reported on ...