Whitney Kimball's saved articles

Currently there are an estimated 7,000 known living languages in the world, yet 95% of the population uses 300 of them. Read more

Before you feel to bad for these living fossils. Here are it’s buzzsaw mouth parts that bore into the victims.

A proposal...in a...mall? In New Jersey? Ugh, I’d be so much better at being “rich.”

People say the most awful things to people with cancer. Well, they say the most awful things all the time to everyone, but you really notice it when you’re covered in scabs from chemo injections. A friend of mine looked me deeply in the eyes and asked, “What have you done to bring this into your life?” I told her I… Read more

It’s only women though that get treated like this. Men are thought of warriors and so brave of them to talk about it. So tired of the patriarchal society. Read more

These are the People who threw a party where the theme was the African continent and this happened and was encouraged.

As someone who gets upwards of 100 emails a day at work, let me just say... Read more

FUCK YOU BUZZFEED I AM NOT DONALD GOD DAMN TRUMP JR. Read more

Good dad too. I’ve known him for about fifteen years and he and her mom are about as loving and supportive as it gets. I saw his pictures from Pride with them all wearing their matching t-shirts and I’m still talking about it online so I guess it was pretty damn cute. Read more

My students do not have meaningful memories of the AIDS crisis at its highest pitch — before the “cocktail” treatment was introduced in the 90s, for sure, HIV/AIDS was an automatic death sentence with a very short horizon. So I have to explain things like ACT UP, Larry Kramer, etc. It’s not as if AIDS went away, of… Read more

This is... this is just too much. Too much cuteness. I think I may be having a stroke. Or I am overwhelmed with love and strangely maternal feelings. Perhaps that’s the stroke-brain talking. Read more

We need some baby animal gifs up in here to soothe our nerves: