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a single mind with thousands of legs, smarter than any of its members.
means Large groups of people gathered together in one place, often moving or behaving as a loose collective.
from From the Old English verb 'crūdan,' meaning to press, push, or crowd together — the same shoving impulse that fills a doorway or a market square. The noun grew out of that pressing motion: a crowd is literally a crowding, bodies compressed into one heaving mass. It's a cousin of the Dutch 'kruien,' to push along, and the sense slid naturally from the act of pressing to the people doing the pressing.
- wisdom
- Crowd guesses on ox weight beat every individual expert
- physics
- Dense crowds move in waves like a fluid
- deadly force
- Crowd pressure can bend steel barriers
- contagion
- Yawns and panic spread through crowds like wildfire
- the number
- Brain treats large crowds as one threatening superorganism
hajj pilgrimage mecca — approximately 1.8 million muslims gather annually in saudi arabia
woodstock 1969 — estimated 400,000 attendees at the music festival in bethel, new york
love parade berlin 1999 — approximately 1.5 million people attended the electronic music festival in germany