Alike is a masterful silent lesson in how to bring colour to your life, every day – via Alike short film on Vimeo(Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)

bookmania: This is the essay that got Cassandra Hsiao accepted into all 8 Ivy League Universities — Read this and think, then think again.

PhD and Origamist Robert Land’s incredible folds(Source: https://www.youtube.com/)

Capitalism is about self-expression; art is about self-expression. Art is far from being a radical outside movement. It’s at the heart of the modern conformity. That’s why nothing ever changes, because the radicals have gone to a form of expression at the very center of the power structure they disapprove of. So they’re neutered.

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The enigmatic brain drawings of neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal (via Brain Pickings)

The traditional Rwandan hairstyle is a work of art. More photos over at BoredPanda