
2021 Ig Nobel Prize Grab Bag, Part 1
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
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The Flow of Human Crowds
i was looking at a paper from two thousand three in the annual review of fluid mechanics by roger l. Hughes, who is who worked in the department of civil and environmental engineering at the university of melbourne. And he was discussing the idea that human movements could be modelled likelike the flow of non human substances - just like molasses flowing out of a jar. He ended up characterizing crowds as the field thinking fluids, which is just wonderful. I mean, it's kind of a young scientific field right now. But ah, it could potentially offer individual advice, in addition to the stuff we already talked about, like informing how to better design spaces for people to walk through.
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