A dozen killer whales are stuck under a large sheet of sea ice off the coast of Canada, and officials and scientists are scrambling to find a way to lead them to open water. (Update: They're free!)
Discovered: Exercise counterintuitively reduces hunger; killer whales moms are mom enough; sexual arousal makes people do gross things; a newly discovered monkey stares deep into your soul.
The New York Times on Frozen Planet, The Daily Beast on climate change, The Guardian on the 2012 Olympics, The Washington Post on fish labels, and the BBC on a white orca
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