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 the San ...

Truth is infinite knowledge, the eternal Brahman. There is an instinctive comfort in the crowd — in numbers, in collective validation, in shared narratives. The human mind, trained by centuries of ...

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In mid-June 2025, following the U.S. Army's 250th birthday celebration parade in Washington, D.C., claims (archived) circulated (archived) online about the size of the crowd at the event, which fell ...

This story has been updated to include new estimates of protest crowd size. Demonstrators filled the streets of U.S. cities and towns in coordinated "No Kings" events, billed as a "national day of ...