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Given the recent tragedy at the Astroworld Festival in Houston, I thought it was worth highlighting an informative and timely article I read on NPR.

We must all be aware of what to do to avoid being in an unsafe crowd and how to help ourselves and others.

Here are eight tips from Mehdi Moussaid, a Berlin-based research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development who studies crowd behavior:

1. Keep an eye out for signs of…