Like Bingo, but With Beef: Why Meat Raffles Are Blowing Up
Meat raffles, unknown in most of the United States, are as embedded as snow and ice in the fabric of communities of the Great ...
Fans flood San Francisco for NBA All-Star weekend: ‘Haven’t seen the city pop like this in a while’
Thousands of fans packed Thrive City outside Chase Center on Saturday, soaking in the excitement of NBA All-Star weekend. With the event returning to the Bay Area for ...
The Eagles’ Super Bowl parade is a daylong party as Philadelphians express their love for the Birds
Fans lined the parade route along Broad Street and the Parkway to celebrate the Birds' Super Bowl win over the Kansas City ...
Inside SEPTA’s nerve center: How hundreds of thousands of Eagles fans got to the Super Bowl parade
Everything went according to the plan this morning, with a few hiccups,” a SEPTA official said early in the day. That was ...
Dozens injured in Munich car ramming as authorities say suspect had ‘Islamist orientation’
A car plowed into demonstrators in Munich on Thursday injuring at least 28 people, in what a local official said was a ...
‘Kumbh Chaiwala’ earns Rs 5,000 a day selling tea; “Rs 1,50,000 ek mahine ka?” social media reacts
Shubham Prajapat's innovative idea of selling tea at the Mahakumbh Mela led him to earn a surprising profit of Rs 5,000 in a ...
Crowds can suddenly turn deadly. New research has clues that could prevent disaster.
Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and researchers now have new theories about how people behave when they get too close ...
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This week in science: The fluid dynamics of crowds, a bird fossil and morning mindsets
NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.
We know how hard it is for young people to buy a home – so how are some still doing it anyway?
Hint: cutting out avocado toast won’t help much. Research shows your chances of owning a home hinge on your income relative ...
Thousands protest Trump administration policies in cities across US
A grassroots movement opposing President Donald Trump's early actions gains momentum online, organizing protests across the U ...
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 ...