An incremental step to taller, multifamily prefab: Eight stories of stacked boxes by Peter Gluck and Partners

NEW YORK – Fuel leaked from Enterprise Products Partners’ natural gas liquids pipeline into the Missouri River in Iowa has dissipated or evaporated with little chance of recovery, the U.S.

NEW YORK – A leak in a natural gas liquids pipeline operated by Enterprise Products Partners spilled fuel into the Missouri River in Iowa, the company said on Monday.

Photo: Toyota An Electrifying Joint-Venture As I’ve previously mentioned , Toyota will make an electric version of its RAV4 small SUV using some Tesla technology. Production of the RAV4 EV is scheduled for 2012, and it has now been announced that the partners will build it in Canada….

by Jess Zimmerman. At least in Sweden, people who have a long-distance commute are 40 percent more likely to separate or divorce. That’s the finding of Erika Sandow, a Swedish social geographer who studied more than two million partnered commuters for her dissertation work

Photo by Eulinky via Flickr CC Back in 2009, scientists posed that we should start freezing corals in liquid nitrogen when it became clear that corals are going through extreme difficulties with pollution, the chance in the ocean’s pH balance, and warming temperatures. The hope is that these corals can later be used to replenish species. Now, the Smithsonian and other partners are beginning to act on this proposal.

Image Credit Foster + Partners After seeing the stunning Dymaxion car built by architect Norman Foster in Abitare and the Guardian, I wrote “I want one.” Not that an eleven-seater is particularly useful, but it is just so gorgeous. Over at Metropolis , Martin Pederson managed to get the elusive architect on the line and do an interview with him, which in itself is evidently quite an accomplishment. ..

The cries one calls out during sex can serve as status symbols advertising just how popular your partners are, according to new findings in the sexually promiscuous chimpanzees known as bonobos. ? Just like humans, sex is not used simply for reproduction among bonobos, but now also serves as a social tool, researchers added. ? Bonobos, once known as pygmy chimpanzees, are the sister species of common chimpanzees, and with them are the closest living relatives to humans.

Photo Credit: Brett Boardman, from Tony Owen Partners blog The childhood illness of rickets, where kids bones are softened and deformed by a deficiency of vitamin D, was rife during the Industrial Revolution of the late 1700′s. It was discovered that the suffering children lived in urban enclaves so dense that very little natural daylight penetrated. And yet sunlight exposure could cure rickets