Bookshelf: Kappan authors on their favorite reads

Favorite Movie Monsters and Their Psychological Appeal

A nationwide and demographically representative sample of 1,166 people responded to a survey exploring choices for a favorite movie monster and reasons underlying the choice. Results of the study indicated that, irrespective of demographics, the vampire is the king of monsters. With a few exceptions (e.g., Chucky, Dracula and sexiness), males and females were generally attracted to the same mon...

The Software Bookshelf

The Virtual Bookshelf Approach

The amount of information that people have to handle in their everyday life has increased and more is asked of their cognitive ability to select and assimilate the information that is important to them. One way to facilitate the cognitive work is to match information objects with each other and select/filter the ones that are relevant. To do this selection objects must be represented in such a ...

Bookshelf faulting in Nicaragua

Oblique subduction at a high rate of convergence along much of the Middle America Trench results in northwest-directed trench-parallel block motion. Accommodation of this motion along northwest-striking dextral strike-slip faults has been postulated; however, in Nicaragua such faults are not well developed. We suggest instead that this motion is accommodated by bookshelf faulting that includes ...

On Henk Barendregt’s Favorite Open Problem

H is the λ-theory extending β-conversion by identifying all closed unsolvables. A long-standing open problem of H. Barendregt states that the range property holds in H. Here we discuss what we know about the problem. We also make some remarks on the λ-theory Hω (the closure of H under the ω-rule and β-conversion).