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Breaking the ice

Many workshops and meetings start with an activity that is intended to help people relax and get to know each other. However, these icebreaker activities are often unpopular with scientists, which is why Michelle Larson and colleagues at Pennsylvania State University in the US have proposed a new approach based on the search for gravitational waves (M Larson et al. 2005 arXiv.org/abs/physics/0503198).