15+ hour, 2+ min ago  (431+ words) Urban centers are designed for transactional transit'moving people from point A to point B'or for static, regulated commerce. They are rarely engineered to absorb sudden, multi-directional influxes of thousands of non-paying, highly kinetic individuals. The psychological state of a crowd…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (822+ words) A 1, 500-pound bucking bull jumps a six-foot arena fence, charges into a crowd, and injures spectators. The immediate, predictable reaction from the public, the media, and the legal system is to sue the rodeo organizers into oblivion. An $11. 5 million lawsuit…...