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Packed Festival Crowds Aren’t Chaotic — They Form Living Vortices, Which Can Be Predicted with Physics
Many festival-goers take part in the ‘running of the bulls’, the controversial centerpiece of the week-long event. So, using ...
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World's largest religious gathering in India underway as hundreds of millions visit 45-day festival
The largest religious gathering in the world is taking place in India from Jan. 13 to Feb. 26. It is a significant test for ...
Spanish 'running of the bulls' festival reveals crowd movements can be predictable, above a certain density
The collective motion of large crowds may be predictable past a certain density of people in a given area, according to a study published in Nature. The findings, based on four years of observations ...
UNLV Students Rally To Bring Up & Up Festival To Las Vegas
Students at UNLV are working hard to bring popular music festival, Up & Up, to one of the biggest party cities in the world.
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The Physics That Keeps a Crowd From Becoming a Stampede
A group of scientists studying the San Fermín festival in Pamplona, Spain, believe there’s a way to predict the motions of a large crowd. By Ari Daniel Every July, at the opening ceremony of ...