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After reading this, you will never look at sex again in the same light. Sea Horses: These guys really believe in monogamy. So much so, that it is passed on to future generations. Not only do the guys give birth, but also they remain faithful to their mates for life. Their young will even repeat the same mating ritual as well as choosing a mate for life. Who could ask for anything more? Anglerfish: Not only do they look nasty, but the guys are moochers. Be careful what you wish for ladies when you ask for a mate for life. The male anglerfish, upon finding a pretty lady, will bite her and release an enzyme that fuses them together. The two then become bonded in an everlasting embrace. When the female is ready to reproduce, the male's appendage is there to provide her with sperm.

The Gossip Girl rumor mill is in overdrive these days, but this one's the best yet. Ed Westwick, ahem, Chuck Bass, is in talks to design a line. Yes, you heard us correctly. Apparently, the king of ripped shirts and lead singer of Filthy Youth can't wait to add his "two cents" to "the creative side" of a certain label related to his Vanity Fair shoot.

Nutritionist and author Jonny Bowden has created several lists of healthful foods people should be eating but aren’t. But some of his favorites, like purslane, guava and goji berries, aren’t always available at regular grocery stores. I asked Dr. Bowden, author of “The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth,” to update his list with some favorite foods that are easy to find but don’t always find their way into our shopping carts. Here’s his advice.

Seven is the most powerfully magical number in the “Harry Potter” universe, the number of books in the series, the number of divisions Voldemort intends to make of his soul, the number of Weasley children, etc. But it won’t be the number of movies. Already we’ve heard word that Warner Brothers plans to split the last book, “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows” into two films. (Help us with where to break that film here.) Could the powers that be, though, actually want a ninth?

POTOSI, Mo. - Jen Leffler first escaped into the world of Harry Potter as an adolescent in suburban Chicago. A decade later, the love affair continues. Only now, it means taking road trips to concerts across the country.

Jason Bateman has just confirmed to me that the creative minds behind Arrested Development (Mitch Hurwitz and Ron Howard) have put the wheels in motion toward a major motion picture of the Fox TV comedy so many of us adore. I'm told by insiders that Jason and other Bluth family members have received calls from producers (Hurwitz and Howard) asking if they would be willing to shoot a movie.

In our continuing efforts to bring our members information on vaccinations, the staff at Alternative Parenting has reached out the Central District School Nurse Association to request permission to use a letter that they recently sent to congress, here on our site. The letter is requesting that the mandatory vaccination of young children with the Hep B vaccine be seriously reviewed. Below is the letter in its entirety.

Despite the fact that How I Met Your Mother star Neil Patrick Harris has been somewhat outspoken on the subject of guest star Britney Spears — first saying that her mere being on the set wreaked havoc with the production, and then later telling reporters that he didn't think the show needed to resort to "stunt casting" to get ratings — the pair appear to be working in perfect harmony in this first shot from Britney's upcoming second appearance on the CBS hit.

A UConn advanced-reporting journalism class investigated Connecticut state voting records last semester and found that over 300 dead people appeared to have voted in elections since 1994. Obviously, no dead people actually voted in the elections, but votes were attributed to citizens who were not only deceased, but should not have even been listed in the active voter rolls. Some cities had upwards of 30 dead voters, with as many as 17 votes cast per person. There were a few instances where people who were registered to vote had no voting history until after their deaths. One woman was listed on the active voter roll last November, despite the fact that she had died in 1979.The most troublesome part of these findings, however, is that over 8,500 people who are listed as dead are still registered to vote in Connecticut and until this week no one at the state level was investigating why.In November 2006, Joe Courtney won the Connecticut second district Congressional race by 91 votes. That is a small enough number that people voting under the wrong name could have significantly altered the outcome.Instead of placing the burden of maintaining the voter registration database onto local town registrars, the state should take the initiative to rectify this problem by removing people from the voter registration database once the information is passed onto the Department of Public Health or Social Security Administration and put on one of the master death lists. The state has been hesitant to take control of maintaining the voter database because it wants to make sure that people are not being arbitrarily removed from the voter list. The state rightly does not want to disenfranchise voters by faultily turning people away from the voting booths because they were removed by mistake, so the responsibility has been left to town registrars, who are more familiar with town residents. It would make sense to have someone maintain the database locally, if that person removed people who he or she knew died.But, as it stands today, town registrars will only remove someone from the voter database if they receive official documentation that the person has died - either the death certificate, which is oftentimes impossible to locate if the person dies over state or country lines, or an obituary in the newspaper. In some towns, death certificates were in the town clerk's office and not passed on to the registrar. If the family contacts the town office and says that a member of the family has died, the registrar should be able to take that person out of the database.The system needs to be streamlined and in an era where elections seem far more hotly contested, the sooner this can be accomplished, the better.

THEN-U.S. REP. WILLIAM RATCHFORD, left, greets UConn hammer thrower Andy Bessette, UConn soccer player Joe Morrone Jr. and former UConn coach Dee Rowe in Washington in August 1980 at a celebration to honor Olympians forced to boycott the Moscow Games. (Courant File Photo / April 10, 2008)

Our friends over at College Humor were in an ongoing prank war when one of the dudes took a joke way too far. He figured out when his buddy was taking his girlfriend to a Yankees game and arranged to have a fake marriage proposal flash on the Jumbotron in front of 57,545 fans. The dude's girlfriend was elated by the announcement, the dude was baffled, and our prankster couldn't help but laugh and pat himself on the back. It was all too cruel to be true — but the prank was for reals. Boys will be boys . . .

Time to set your TIVO’s Indies!!! The MTV True Life episode featuring the fashion show we hosted for Cassie Krugler of New York Couture premieres on Saturday. Cassie is one of our faves and is without a doubt an indie darling and amazing designer. We can’t wait to see the result of MTV’s camera’s on the girl 24/7 for one full month.

Morning Edition, March 19, 2008 · Writer Arthur C. Clarke has died in Sri Lanka. He was 90. He's best known for writing 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he wrote many dozens of science fiction novels. Clarke, a trained scientist who united intellectual rigor with imagination, inspired generations of writers and scientists with his powerfully humane vision of the future.

The Hills star Audrina Patridge was nice enough to have photos taken of herself in the buff a few years back - and those photos have arrived in the form of pictures online.MTV's The Hills Audrina Patridge is a sexy brunette with a belly-button piercing who obviously isn't shy about her body and shouldn't be!Patridge has appeared in seasons one, two and three of reality television show The Hills featuring Whitney Port, Heidi Montag and former Laguna Beach star Lauren Conrad.22-year-old Patridge, who seems a little embarrassed by the leak, tells our pals at TMZ that she "took these photos years ago when I was just out of high school and beginning to model.""I was young and very trusting of others and I didn't know to protect myself," she tells MTV."It is a lesson learned, for myself, and hopefully for the young girls who look up to me."Check out the bare sexy topless photos below! Bad girl, Audrina, bad! Related Audrina Patridge Topless Photos Not Wanted By Playboy Magazine

Back and forth the swimmers went, one lap in the 25-yard course turning into four, four laps becoming 400 by the end of the two-and-a-half-hour practice. In one lane, the chain of bodies skimming the surface had a strong link in the middle, the swimmer two behind the leader commanding the eye with her long, fluid strokes.

It’s oddly cultural but not really much of a mystery: ticket sales are driven by young men (18–24), whereas television, especially network television, is more of a woman’s world. (Female viewers outnumber men by approximately 30 percent during prime time.) So it is something of a milestone that Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have teamed up to make Baby Mama, a comedy about a single career woman (Fey) who wants a child and hires a working-class surrogate (Poehler), who moves in; they then clash like The Odd Couple. In a market that favors boy-girl romantic comedies such as 27 Dresses, a female buddy picture is bold. There have not been many successful ones since Bette Midler and Shelley Long starred in Outrageous Fortune in 1987. (Thelma & Louise had its funny moments, but that final pratfall was deadly.)

You've probably heard the Wilhelm Scream dozens of times in different movies and television shows without realizing it, but it's one of those things that once you hear, you'll always be able to identify it afterwards. It's now become an in-joke amongst sound editors who try to insert it into their films whenever there's a perfect moment that just needs an over-the-top scream. It began as a Warner Bros. stock sound effect, but was revived and put to serious use by Star Wars sound designer Ben Burtt. Now the thing just won't die. Find out more in our screaming triviagasm below.

Straight from the set of Kevin Smith’s Zack And Miri Make A Porno - starring Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Jason Mewes, Traci Lords, Craig Robinson, Jeff Anderson, Katie Morgan and Ricky Mabe - comes a decidedly NSFW cautionary tale about just what it takes to get ahead in Hollywood…

Why, oh, why do they inflict science fairs on already awkward teens? It's not like some pimply 14-year-old is going to locate the gene that will let us all live to be 150 or suddenly discover alternative fuel sources. (Okay, maybe — but not likely.) In any case, check out these photos of hormonally-challenged adolescents standing in front of their awesomely titled exhibits, all of which manage to sound like band names. "Anyone wanna go see Code of Meniscus with me tonight? Electro Worms are opening up for them. I hear they're really sick."

Hoping to “revolutionize senior housing,” three openly gay housing specialists announced today the opening this fall of one of the country’s first urban independent-living communities for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) seniors—in the historic landmarked Lake Merritt Hotel.