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...hate relationship with the Sydney Opera House. “It’s my favorite building,” he said. “But at the same time, I hate the project. The Sydney Opera House is a megaproject disaster.” Flyvbjerg, a professor at Aalborg University, discussed the budget overruns that are common to large infrastructure projects, or megaprojects, at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design last night. According to Flyvbjerg, nine out of every 10 infrastructure projects have these fiscal problems. “So don’t believe that...
...drawback is that the Freehand system provides no tactile feedback for things like temperature, so users also have to be careful when handling hot objects such as cigarettes or coffee. To get around this problem, Thomas Sinkjaer and colleagues at the Center for Sensory-Motor Interaction at Denmark's Aalborg University are developing neural prosthetics that can actually feel the texture of objects and transmit this information back to the user...
...Cell-phone safety is a very touchy and involved subject," says Jorgen Bach Andersen, a professor at Aalborg University in Denmark who pioneered the development of a type of low-radiation antenna that is gradually finding its way into cell phones. "If no one wanted to buy mobile phones any longer because they were afraid of health damage, that would be disastrous for the industry." Some 500 million mobile phones are in use around the world--including 100 million in the U.S.--and manufacturers have been selling new ones at the rate of 400 million a year...
Championship doubles-women--1, St. Catharines R.C., 18:31.57; 2, Aalborg Women's R.C.; 3, Smith College Crew...
...hymn to the humble brick. In Seinajoki, he daringly faced the town hall with curved blue tiles that soften the structure's abrupt angles and change hue from blue to gray to black, depending on the light. In his recently opened North Jutland Museum of the Arts in Aalborg, Denmark, Aalto confronted the most difficult challenge in museum design: natural lighting. Most architects avoid the issue by putting up blank walls of solid masonry or tinted glass. But Aalto allows sunlight to pour through high windows, then tames it by bouncing it off curved structural beams so that...