Stress Tests or Resilience Tests

June 08, 2011

Stress Tests or Resilience Tests

stress testing their nuclear power plants after the Fukishima disaster after the tsunami in Japan. German financial regulators are angered over the failure of the European Central Bank to adequately stress test financial institutions regarding their Tier 1 capital holdings, apparently the key metric to a bank’s financial stability. And medical science is stress testing our biological systems and (surprise?)…exercise helps men with Type 2 diabetes and sleep apnea. Stress testing describes the stability of a system and requires an...

January 03, 2011

Be it resolved..

A recent study I saw compared the difference between people who had set goals for themselves and told someone else and a group of folks who set goals for themselves and did not tell anyone. Now, conventional wisdom would tell us that by telling someone that we are committed to a goal, we should have the kind of motivation that would help us through the task. But the researchers found that those people who did not tell anyone about their...

December 26, 2010

Innovation, 2011

They’re mobile devices and not phones anymore. Microsoft’s Kinetic takes the Nintendo Wii to the next level with a hands free gaming device. An inventor in Japan is designing a high speed train that doesn’t have to stop to pick up or let off passenger For the leaping impaired, Concept 1 has designed a new basketball shoe that adds 4 inches to a basketball players vertical leap, even giving guys like me hope that someday I may be able to...