Pay little, get little; pay more, get a little more: A framed forest experiment in Tanzania

Give a little ... get a lot.

A Little Less Cogitation, A Little More Action Please

This chapter considers action-oriented processing from a model-oriented standpoint. Possible relationships between action and cognition are reviewed in abstract or conceptual terms. We then turn to models of their interrelationships and role in mediating cognitively enriched behaviors. Examples of theories or models inspired by the actionoriented paradigm are briefl y surveyed, with a particula...

Just a Little Bit More

We extend the FLUSH+RELOAD side-channel attack of Benger et al. to extract a significantly larger number of bits of information per observed signature when using OpenSSL. This means that by observing only 25 signatures, we can recover secret keys of the secp256k1 curve, used in the Bitcoin protocol, with a probability greater than 50 percent. This is an order of magnitude improvement over the p...

Microbiology. We get by with a little help from our (little) friends.

T o understand diseases of the heart, kidney, lung, and other organs, medical students first learn how these systems function under normal conditions. The principal exception to this health-before-disease approach is the study of the relationship between humans and microorganisms. Remarkably, we know far less about the thousands of species that make up our intrinsic microbiota than we know abou...

A Little More "Truth about Tobacco"

damage upon the average normal person, and that all lectures, statistics, text books of physiology, and the like to the contrary, are both absurd and ridiculous. In fact it decides that there is no "evidence to condemn tobacco in any form, not excepting cigarettes" I I marvelled greatly how such an article came to be printed in a reputable journal, and my first explanation was silly. I thought ...