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Web Watch

Want a glimpse into the minds of today’s college freshmen? Visit themindsetlist.com.

According to the Beloit College website:

“Each August since 1998, Beloit College has released the Beloit College Mindset List, providing a look at the cultural touchstones that shape the lives of students entering college this fall. It was originally created as a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references. It quickly became an internationally monitored catalog of the changing worldview of each new college generation.”

Along with an archive of lists, the site contains a calendar of upcoming events of interest, a blog, a daily quiz and information about the print publication.

Check out the list for the college class of 2016: http://www.beloit.edu/mindset/2016/.

Web Bits

UWG flameBrain's Hidden Sewers Revealed, by Laura Sanders

The brain is a self-cleaning machine. A previously unknown plumbing system blasts out waste by flushing it with the brain’s cleaning solution — cerebrospinal fluid.

Jeffrey Iliff of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York and his colleagues watched cerebrospinal fluid flowing through the brains of living mice using an advanced imaging technique called two-photon laser scanning microscopy. First, the fluid rushed into the brain by piggybacking on the outer surfaces of arteries. Once in the brain, the fluid swept away wastes such as the protein amyloid beta, which accumulates in the brains of people with Alzheimer’s disease. Finally, the brain expelled the liquid through large cellular drains. Read more ...

UWG flameCreativity: The Secret Behind the Secret, by Steven Kotler

In 2010, IBM’s Institute for Business Value surveyed over 1,500 chief executives about the most important leadership competency for this new millennium. Creativity was the across-the-board’s winner. No surprise, right? But this begs the eternal question: When scaling up your business, where in the heck does one find good creative talent?

There’s lots of advice around, most of which is centered around a watch-and-wait kind of approach. See which people ask creative questions, see who comes up with interesting problem-solving solutions—that sort of thing. Read more ...