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Nicole Sharp

Crowd Vortices

The Feast of San Fermín in Pamplona, Spain draws crowds of thousands. Scientists recently published an analysis of the crowd motion in these dense gatherings. The team filmed the crowds at the festival from balconies overlooking the plaza in 2019, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Analyzing the footage, they discovered that at crowd densities above 4 people per square meter, the crowd begins to move in almost imperceptible eddies. In the animation below, lines trace out the path followed by single individuals in the crowd, showing the underlying “vortex.” At the plaza’s highest density — 9 people per square meter — one rotation of the vortex took about 18 seconds.

The team found similar patterns in footage of the crowd at the 2010 Love Parade disaster, in which 21 people died. These patterns aren’t themselves an indicator of an unsafe crowd — none of the studied Pamplona crowds had a problem — but understanding the underlying dynamics should help planners recognize and prevent dangerous crowd behaviors before the start of a stampede. (Image credit: still – San Fermín, animation – Bartolo Lab; research credit: F. Gu et al.; via Nature)

Overhead view of a crowd during the Feast of San Fermín.
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Tuckers Nuts Resist! 🇺🇦 

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🥥 Remember, brave, brave Sir Donald is holding his inauguration indoors on January 20th because attendance is going to be low; not because the weather is going to be cold.
People who had received inauguration invitations -- for whom there is no room -- are being told that their tickets are just non-functional souvenirs now. 🥥
#USPolitics #Inauguration #InaugurationSurvivalKit #Crowds #TuckersBalls

Horizontal color photograph. Donald Trump Jr (left) howling like an ape and gesturing with his right arm, Donald Trump sucking air with a maxi pad on his ear (center), and Eric Trump (right) catching flies with his mouth while applauding at a campaign event. Text below the image: kitkat61969 It's a flesh wound. It's not like he was a 13-year-old girl getting an emergency C-section due to a forced pregnancy.
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An “extensive” police operation was underway after dozens of people were injured when a car plowed through a Christmas market in a city in eastern Germany. Officials say up to 80 people may be injured, and they suspect the act was intentional. Read more from @NBCNews

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NBC News · Vehicle plows into crowded Christmas market in Germany, injuring dozensBy Antonio Planas
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The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages by Shane Bobrycki, 2024

The importance of collective behavior in early medieval Europe. By the fifth and sixth centuries, the bread and circuses and triumphal processions of the Roman Empire had given way to a quieter world. And yet, as Shane Bobrycki argues, the influence and importance of the crowd did not disappear in early medieval Europe.

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In The Crowd in the Early Middle Ages, Bobrycki shows that although demographic change may have dispersed the urban multitudes of Greco-Roman civilization, collective behavior retained its social importance even when crowds were scarce. Most historians have seen early medieval Europe as a world without crowds. In fact, Bobrycki argues, early medieval European sources are full of crowds—although perhaps not the sort historians have trained themselves to look for. Harvests, markets, festivals, religious rites, and political assemblies were among the gatherings used to regulate resources and demonstrate legitimacy. Indeed, the refusal to assemble and other forms of “slantwise” assembly became a weapon of the powerless. Bobrycki investigates what happened when demographic realities shifted, but culture, religion, and politics remained bound by the past. The history of crowds during the five hundred years between the age of circuses and the age of crusades, Bobrycki shows, tells an important story—one of systemic and scalar change in economic and social life and of reorganization in the world of ideas and norms.
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Harris joined the crowd virtually from a rally she and Walz were holding at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Last month the Republicans held their own national convention in that venue, and for Harris to accept her nomination in the same place was an acknowledgement of how important Wisconsin will be in this election."

~ Heather Cox Richardson

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Letters from an American · August 20, 2024By Heather Cox Richardson
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William Lindsey :toad:

"Trump in 2024 is both an older candidate and a more tired one. His current campaign is a rerun rather than a burst of originality. Symptomatic of this tiredness is his repeated deployment of old talking points and nicknames and his nursing of grudges from his 2020 election defeat…."

~ Jeet Heer

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The Nation · Why Donald Trump Can’t Let Go of Joe BidenThe former president is caught in a nostalgia trap of his own making.
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