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@@ -4,6 +4,17 @@ hope at this point in your education you'll have learned to be a guarded reader
 even of authoritative treatises by eminent authors. So you shouldn't need any
 Wikipedia-specific warnings.
 
+For most readers, many bits of reading we point you to will be hairy in one way
+or another. It may be aimed at audiences with more programming experience; it
+may be aimed at audiences with specific logical background you don't yet have;
+it may be aimed at audiences familiar with technical areas in linguistics you're
+first encountering. Or perhaps several of these at once. We hope you will
+already have mastered the skill of leveraged reading: getting what you can out
+of an article you don't fully understand, so that you can discuss it with the rest of
+the group and hopefully get to a point where you can read it again and
+get more out of out. (Rinse and repeat.)
+
+
 ## General issues about variables and binding in programming languages ##
 
 *      [[!wikipedia Variable (programming)]]
@@ -32,6 +43,7 @@ Wikipedia-specific warnings.
 
 ## Scheme and OCaml ##
 
+*      [An Introduction to Lambda Calculus and Scheme](http://www.jetcafe.org/~jim/lambda.html) -- aimed at programmers
 *      [[!wikipedia Scheme (programming language)]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Objective Caml]]
 
@@ -42,6 +54,7 @@ Wikipedia-specific warnings.
 *      [[!wikipedia Moses Schönfinkel]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Alonzo Church]]<p>
 *      [[!wikipedia Combinatory logic]]
+*      [Combinatory logic](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logic-combinatory/) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 *      [[!wikipedia B,C,K,W system]]
 *      [[!wikipedia SKI combinatory calculus]]<p>
 *      [[!wikipedia Church-Rosser theorem]]
@@ -64,6 +77,8 @@ Wikipedia-specific warnings.
 *      [[!wikipedia Bottom type]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Typed lambda calculus]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Simply typed lambda calculus]]
+*      [Type Theory](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory/) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
+*      [Church's Type Theory](http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/type-theory-church/) at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
 *      [[!wikipedia Type polymorphism]]
 *      [[!wikipedia System F]]
 
@@ -77,8 +92,10 @@ Wikipedia-specific warnings.
 
 *      [[!wikipedia Continuation]]
 *      [[!wikipedia Continuation-passing style]]
-*      [[!wikipedia Call-with-current-continuation]]
+*      [[!wikipedia Call-with-current-continuation]]
+*      [Intro to call/cc](http://community.schemewiki.org/?call-with-current-continuation) at SchemeWiki
 *      [[!wikipedia Delimited continuation]]
+*      [Delimited/composable continuations tutorial](composable-continuations-tutorial) at SchemeWiki
 
 ## Monads ##