An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans

The Two Humans put on their space helmets and probe humankind’s one-hundred-year-old obsession with space aliens. 
Episode 88 – So…How Was Your Trip? UFOs and Making Small Talk with Space Aliens
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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The Two Humans take a good, hard look in the mirror and decide they need cosmetic surgery. 
Episode 87 -- Tall, Dark, and Handsome (with a Little More Hair on Top)
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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The Two Humans are joined by comedian, actor, and art lover Chris Hogan as they discuss sticky fingers in art museums and why it’s so hard to recover stolen artworks.
Episode 86 – How Much Is That Degas in the Window? The One with the Spurious Tale.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542
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2021 Goring’s Man in Paris. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.  
 
Restrepo, Manuela Lopez
2025 UK court finds men who stole $6 million gold toilet guilty. NPR, March 20, 2025, www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54909/golden-toilet-stolen-cattelan-6-million-convicted.
 
Reyhan, Patricia Youngblood
2001 A Chaotic Palette: Conflict of Laws in Litigation between Original Owners and Good-Faith Purchasers of Stolen Art. Duke Law Journal, Feb., 2001, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Feb., 2001), pp. 955-1043.
 
Roodt, Christa
2013 Restitution of Art and Cultural Objects and Its Limits. The Comparative and International Law Journal of Southern Africa, November 2013, Vol. 46, No. 3 (November 2013), pp. 286-307.
 
Schapiro, Rich and Ani Ucar
2026 A $58,000 sofa? Inside the mind-boggling crime spree of L.A.'s 'most tasteful' burglar. NBC News, April 3, 2026, www.nbcnews.com/ investigations/58000-sofa-mind-boggling-crime-spree-ls-tasteful-burglar-rcna254532. 
 
Shoumatoff, Alex
2014 The Devil and the Art Dealer. Vanity Fair, March 19, 2014, www.vanityfair.com/news/2014/04/degenerate-art-cornelius-gurlitt-munich-apartment.
 
Spencer, Ronald D. and Gary D. Sesser
2013 Provenance: Important, Yes, But Often Incomplete and Often Enough, Wrong. Artnet, June 26, 2013, news.artnet.com/market/the-importance-of-provenance-in-determining-authenticity-29953.
 
UNESCO
2023 The illicit trafficking of cultural goods shall be recognized as a security issue. UNESCO (website), November 23, 2023, www.unesco.org/en/articles/ illicit-trafficking-cultural-goods-shall-be-recognized-security-issue.
 
Willingham, Leah
2026 Inside the world’s largest art heist when over $500M of paintings were stolen from a Boston museum. APNnews.com. April 26, 2026, apnews.com/article/isabella-stewart-gardner-museum-art-heist-boston-512da0322ce5c93c1bbafc7a5e228b2c.
 

Oh la la!! The Two Humans travel back to their own adolescence to investigate why people become obsessed with certain activities.
Episode 85: Is That a Baguette in Your Pocket or Are You Just a Happy Francophile?
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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American Psychological Association 
2002   Developing Adolescents: A Reference for Professionals. American Psychological Association, Washington, DC.
 
Amodeo, John
2018   Would You Like to Be More Interesting: Keys to Richer Connections. Psychology Today, June 4, 2018, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/intimacy-a-path-toward-spirituality/201806/would-you-like-to-become-more-interesting.
 
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1997   Life and Letters: Anglophilia, American Style. The American Scholar, Summer 1997, Vol. 66, No. 3 (Summer 1997), pp. 327-334. 
 
Basford, Steve
2024   Breaking Away: A Retrospective. Proving Press, Newark, OH.
 
Bauerlein, Monika
2015   Last of the Munichans. Mother Jones, July/August 2015, www.motherjones.com/ media/2015/07/europeans-dressed-as-native-americans-photos.
 
Brown, Laurence
2013   Lost in the Pond: Why Are There So Many American Anglophile? Anglotopia, October 14, 2013, anglotopia.net/anglophilia/lost-in-the-pond-why-are-there-so-many-american-anglophiles/.
 
Bucar, Liz
2022   Stealing My Religion: Not Just Any Cultural Appropriation. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.
 
Burton, Antoinette
2003   When Was Britain? Nostalgia for the Nation at the End of the “American Century.” The Journal of Modern History, Vol. 75, No. 2 (June 2003), pp. 359-374.
 
Coffey, Simon
2010   Stories of Frenchness: Becoming a Francophile. Language and Intercultural Communication, Vol. 10, No. 2, May 2010, pp. 119-136.
 
Copeland, Libby
2021   Why Are We All So Obsessed with Genealogy. Literary Hub, June 11, 2021, lithub.com/we-are-we-all-so-obsessed-with-genealogy/.
 
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1998   Playing Indian. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT.
 
Dery, Mark
2013   England My England: Anglophilia Explained. Thought Catalog, Brooklyn, NY.
 
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2007   Language Learning During Study Abroad: What We Know and What We Have Yet to Learn. Japanese Language and Literature, Oct., 2007, Vol. 41, No. 2, Study Abroad for Advanced Skills (Oct., 2007), pp. 245-269.
 
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2025   The French Dispatch and Francophilia in Film. The Cambridge Language Collective (website), www.thecambridgelanguagecollective.com/europe/the-french-dispatch-and-francophilia-in-film (accessed January 29, 2026).
 
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2012   Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
 
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2009   Xenophilia as a Cultural Trap: Bridging the Gap Between Transpersonal Psychology and Religious/Spiritual Traditions. International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Vol. 28, Issue 1, pp. 107-111, digitalcommons.ciis.edu/ijts-transpersonalstudies/vol28/iss1/10/.
 
Goldstein, Sam
2025   You Don’t Need to Be Interesting, Just Interested: Real connection starts with listening. Psychology Today, September 23, 2025, www.psychologytoday.com /us/ blog/raising-resilient-children/202509/you-dont-need-to-be-interesting-just-interested.
 
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2015   Becoming ‘Indigenous’: German Fascination with North American Indians.  Utne Reader, February 13, 2015, www.utne.com/community/north-american-indians-ze0z1502zhur/.
 
Hale, Matthew
2014   Cosplay: Intertextuality, Public Texts, and the Body Fantastic. Western Folklore, Winter 2014, Vol. 73, No. 1 (Winter 2014), pp. 5-37.
 
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2018   The Meaning and Meaninglessness of Genealogy. Psychology Today, January 29, 2018, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/beastly-behavior/201801/the-meaning-and-meaninglessness-genealogy.
 
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2019   White Negroes: When Cornrows Were in Vogue…And Other Thoughts on Cultural Appropriation. Beacon Press Books, Boston, MA.
 
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2006   De la francophilie en Amerique : Ces Americains qui aiment la France. Actes Sud, Arles, France.
 
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2020   The New Anglophilia: Why the US is Going Wild for English Accents and Culture. The Guardian, www.theguardian.com/uk-news/shortcuts/2020/feb/11/the-new-anglophilia-why-the-us-is-going-wild-for-english-accents-and-culture.
 
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Lore of Life
2024   Understanding Ennui: Unravelling the Depths of Modern Discontent. Lore of Life, October 12, 2024, loreoflife.com/ennui/.
 
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2022   Anna Delvey Is So Much More than a "Fake German Heiress." Harper’s Bazaar, February 7, 2022, www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/film-tv/a38994142/who-is-anna-delvey-sorokin-fake-german-heiress/.
 
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2015   Rachel Dolezal: ‘I wasn't identifying as black to upset people. I was being me.’ The Guardian, December 13, 2015, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/dec/13/rachel-dolezal-i-wasnt-identifying-as-black-to-upset-people-i-was-being-me.
 
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2014   “Your Mind Says One Thing but Your Emotions Do Another”: Language, Emotion, and Developing Transculturality in Study Abroad. Die Unterrichtspraxis/Teaching German, Vol. 47, No. 2 (Fall 2014), pp. 109-120.
 
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2020   Two Types of Passion: Harmonious vs. Obsessive. Psychology Today, August 8, 2020, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/building-the-habit-hero/202008/two-types-passion-harmonious-vs-obsessive.
 
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2015   8 People Who Pretended To Be A Different Race Or Ethnicity. Oddee, June 16, 2015, www.oddee.com/item_99357.aspx.
 
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2025   The Francophile Condition. The Good Life France (website), thegoodlifefrance.com/the-francophile-condition/, (accessed January 29, 2026).
 
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2024   The Psychology Behind Passion. Psychologs, January 5, 2024, www.psychologs.com/the-psychology-behind-passion/ ?srsltid =AfmBOoqXHdRIqaRYbWX0_WXvrxkODfem1xiyG7WzQr-ZoJbQklfN4ZP7.
 
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2025   Imposter Syndrome. Psychology Today.com (website), www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/imposter-syndrome, accessed February 2, 2026.
 
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2011   Why America’s Anglophiles Are Missing the Point of the Royal Wedding. Time, April 28, 2011, time.com/archive/6595657/why-americas-anglophiles-are-missing-the-point-of-the-royal-wedding/.
 
Rickman, Catherine
2021   5 of the Most Famous Francophiles in History. Frenchly, February 17, 2021, frenchly.us/5-of-the-most-famous-francophiles-in-history/.
 
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1978   Orientalism. Vintage Books, New York, New York.
 
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It’s time to high five and give each other some skin as The Two Humans celebrate those two work horses at the end of our arms—THE HANDS!
Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Alpenfels, Ethel J.
1955   The Anthropology and Social Significance of the Human Hand. Artificial Limbs, May 1, 1955, 2 (2), pp. 4-21.
 
Baccarini, Matteo and Angelo Maravita
2013   Beyond the Boundaries of the Hand: Plasticity of Body-Space Interactions Following Tool Use. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 77-99.
 
Bell, Charles
1852   The Hand: Its Mechanism and Vital Endowments As Evincing Design. London, John Murray.
 
Bremner, Andrew J. and Dorothy Cowie
2013   Developmental Origins of the Hand in the Mind, and the Role of the Hand in the Development of the Mind. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 27-55. 
 
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1920   The Book of a Hundred Hands. Dover Publications, Garden City, New York.
 
Britannica Editors
2021   Brachiation. Encyclopedia Britannica (website), December 20, 2021, www.britannica.com/science/brachiation.
 
Byrns, Arthur G.
1906   The Hand in Art. Brush and Pencil, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Sep., 1906), pp. 117-122.
 
Cahn, Laura
2024   14 Common Hand Gestures That Are Rude in Other Countries. Reader’s Digest, November 25, 2024, www.rd.com/article/common-hand-gestures-rude-in-other-countries/.
 
Cole, Jonathan
2013   “Capable of Whatever Man’s Ingenuity Suggests”: Agency, Deafferentation, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 3-25. 
 
Cooperrider, Kensy
2020   Where Do Finger Names Come From? JSTOR Daily, January 1, 2020, daily.jstor.org/where-do-finger-names-come-from/.
 
Farmer, Harry and Manos Tsakiris
2013   Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 103-130.
 
Feder, Kenneth L. and Michael Alan Park
2007   Human Antiquity: An Introduction to Physical Anthropology and Archaeology (Fifth Edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
 
Given, Leila
1929   The Bacterial Significance of the Handshake. The American Journal of Nursing, Mar., 1929, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Mar., 1929), pp. 254-256.
 
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011   Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Ninth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
 
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1810   De l’Esprit or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties (translated from the French). London: Albion Press.
 
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2013   The Pre-Eminence of the Right Hand: A Study in Religious Polarity. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2013), pp. 335-357.
 
Holmes, Nicholas P.
2013   Hand-Centered Space, Hand-Centered Attention, and the Control of Movement. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 57-76.
 
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)
2024   Animals with Opposable Thumbs. International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) (website), September 18, 2024, www.ifaw.org/journal/animals-opposable-thumbs.
 
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2026   Isaac Newton Quotes. Isaac Newton.org (website), www.isaacnewton.org/ quotes.jsp (accessed January 12, 2026).
 
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2023   The Story of My Life. Global Publishers, Glendale, WI.
 
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2010   Oldest evidence of human stone tool use and meat-eating found. Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (website), August 12, 2010.
 
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1995   Kiss, Bow, or Shake Hands (2nd Edition). Adams Media, Stoughton, MA. 
 
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1980   Hands. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ.
 
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2013   Foreword: Hand Manifesto. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. ix-xvii. 
 
Radman, Zdravko
2013   Beforehand. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. xix-xxii. 
 
Ratcliffe, Matthew
2013   Touch and the Sense of Reality. The Hand: An Organ of the Mind (ed. Zdravko Radman). The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 131-157. 
 
Read, Alice
2024   Why are hands so difficult to draw? Using the failures of AI to understand. Art UK, July 8, 2024, artuk.org/discover/stories/why-are-hands-so-difficult-to-draw-using-the-failures-of-ai-to-understand.
 
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2018   Evolution: The Human Story, Second Edition. Dorling Kindersley, New York, NY.
 
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2010   The Coevolution of Human Hands and Feet. Evolution, June 2010, Vol. 64, No. 6 (June 2010), pp. 1558-1568.
 
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2017   Here’s Why Cartoon Characters Only Have 4 Fingers. A.V. Club, March 29, 2017, www.avclub.com/here-s-why-cartoon-characters-only-have-4-fingers-1798259730.
 
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2025   Chinese Etiquette: Fist and Palm Salute. TCT: Top China Travel (website), www.topchinatravel.com/china-guide/chinese-etiquette-fist-and-palm-salute.htm, accessed December 22, 2025.
 
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2022   Why So Many Cartoon Characters Only Have 4 Fingers. Screen Rant, January 1, 2022, screenrant.com/cartoon-characters-four-fingers-hands-animation-reason/.
 
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2024   Palm Reading for Beginners. Llewellyn Publications, Woodbury, Minnesota.
 
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1998   The Hand: How Its Use Shapes the Brain, Language, and Human Culture. Vintage Books, New York, NY. 

You WILL listen to this episode. You WILL enjoy it. The Two Humans discuss Stanley Milgram’s obedience experiment and Philip Zimbardo’s Stanford Prison Experiment.
Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Caspar, Emilie A.
2024   Just Following Orders: Atrocities and the Brain Science of Obedience. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK.
 
De Vos, Jan
2011   Depsychologizing Torture. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 37, No. 2 (Winter 2011), pp. 286-314.
 
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1977   Research: Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience” Studies. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, March 1977, Vol. 34, No. 1 (March 1977), pp. 88-99.
 
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1996   Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust. Vintage Books, New York, NY.
 
Hale, Rebecca
2020   ‘They Were Just Following Orders’: Relationships between Milgram’s Obedience Experiments and Conceptions of Holocaust Perpetration. Holocaust Education: Contemporary Challenges and Controversies (ed. Stuart Foster, Andy Pearce, and Alice Pettigrew. UCL Press, London, UK.
 
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2025   Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). Harvard University (website), psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/stanley-milgram, (accessed November 30, 2025).
 
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1979   Stanley Milgram and the Obedience Experiment: Authority, Legitimacy, and Human Action. Political Theory, Aug., 1979, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 321-345.
 
 
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2008   Review: Lucifer’s Last Laugh: The Devil Is in the Details. Reviewed Work(s): The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil by Philip Zimbardo. The American Journal of Psychology, Summer, 2008, Vol. 121, No. 2 (Summer, 2008), pp. 335-341.
 
Le Texier, Thibault
2024   Investigating the Stanford Prison Experiment: History of a Lie. Springer, Cham, Switzerland.
 
Levine, Robert
2007   Review: The Evil That Men Do. American Scientist, September-October 2007, Vol. 95, No. 5 (September-October 2007), pp. 440-442.
 
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1974   Obedience to Authority. Harper Perennial Modern Thought, New York, NY.
1974   The Dilemma of Obedience. The Phi Delta Kappan, May, 1974, Vol. 55, No. 9 (May, 1974), pp. 603-606.
 
Stannard, Matthew B.
2002   BBC’s ‘Reality’ Show May Be Cruel and Unusual Television/Program Based on Stanford Prison Experiment. SFGate.com, January 28, 2002, www.sfgate.com/ news/article/BBC-s-reality-show-may-be-cruel-and-unusual-2879491.php.
 
Stevens, Francis L., Robin A. Hurley, and Katherine H. Taber
2011   Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Unique Role in Cognition and Emotion. The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, Volume 23, Number 2, Spring 2011, pp. 120-125.
 
 
 
Stigler, Kimberly A. and Christopher J. McDougle
2013   Structural and Functional MRI Studies of Autism Spectrum Disorder. The Neuroscience of Autism Spectrum Disorders (ed. Joseph D. Buxbaum and Patrick R. Hof). Academic Press, Oxford, UK, pp. 251-266.
 
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1969   An Experimental Study of the Small World Problem. Sociometry, Vol 32, No. 4 (Dec., 1969), pp.425-443.
 
Zimbardo, Philip
2008   The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, NY.
 
Zurcher, Anthony
2025   Fallout from ‘illegal orders’ video escalates battle with Democrats over US patriotism. BBC, November 26, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq8dqq ddpe8o.

A shrieking outside your window. A fluttering at the corner of your eye. In this year’s Halloween episode, The Two Humans investigate the frightening history of FAIRIES.
Episode 82: For Fear of Little Men: Fairies, Pixies, and Other Assorted Wee Folk
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Allingham, William
2025   The Fairies. Scottish Poetry Library (website), www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem / fairies/, accessed October 19, 2025.
 
Briggs, K. M.
1957   The English Fairies. Folklore, Mar., 1957, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Mar., 1957), pp. 270-287.
 
Christiansen, Reidar Th.
1973   Some Notes on the Fairies and the Fairy Faith. Bealoideas, 1971-1973, Im. 39/41 (1971 – 1973), pp. 95-111.
 
Chua, Eu Jin
2025   Disenchantment. Encyclopaedia Britannica, www.britannica.com/topic/ disenchantment-sociology (accessed October 26, 2025).
 
Daimler, Morgan
2024   The Victorians, the Theosophists and the Cottingley Fairies: The Reshaping of Modern Fairy Belief. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 182-195.
 
Dearnley, Elizabeth
2021   Introduction. Fearsome Fairies: Haunting Tales of the Fae (ed. Elizabeth Dearnley). The British Library, London, UK, pp. 7-17.
 
Dickson, Meri
2024   Fairy Fraud: The Socio-Cultural Impact of the Cottingley Fairy Photographs. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 251-266.
 
 
Doyle, Arthur Conan
1922   The Coming of the Fairies: The Cottingley Incident. Hodder & Stoughton, London, UK.
 
Eberly, Susan Schoon
1988   Fairies and the Folklore of Disability: Changelings, Hybrids and the Solitary Fairy. Folklore, 1988, Vol. 99, No. 1 (1988), pp. 58-77.
 
Elfschool
2025   The Elfschool. The Elfschool (website), theelfschool.com (accessed October 26, 2025).
 
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2025   Fairy Festivals 2025. Fae Magazine (website), www.faemagazine.com/summer-fairy-festivals-2025/ (accessed October 26, 2025).
 
Frimmer, Steven
1976   Neverland: Fabled Places and Fabulous Voyages of History and Legend. The Viking Press, New York, NY.
 
Inuma, Kaori
2024   Edward Gardner’s Theosophical Storyworld. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX., pp. 159-181.
 
Jenkins, Richard
2000   Disenchantment, Enchantment and Re-Enchantment: Max Weber at the Millennium. Max Weber Studies, November 2000, Vol. 1, No. 1 (November 2000), pp. 11-32.
 
 
Kay, Karen
2024   Fairy Whispering: 111 Magical Practices for Connecting with the Fairies. Hay House, London, UK.
 
Kelly, Dan
2022   Kansas City’s Fairyland Park Conjures Fond Memories—and the Shadow of Racism. The Kansas City Star, July 22, 2022.
 
Knight, Sirona
2005   The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Elves and Fairies. Alpha Books, New York, NY.
 
Maher, F. R.
2021   Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Secret of the Cottingley Fairies. F. R. Maher, Coppell, TX.
 
Purkiss, Diane
2000   Fairies and Fairy Stories: A History. Tempus, Stroud, UK.
 
Rose, Carol
1996   Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People. ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA.
 
Salinas, Andres Felipe Barrero
2023   Max Weber on Disenchantment: Is Religion Obsolete? The Collector, May 31, 2023, www.thecollector.com/max-weber-disenchantment-world-religion/.
 
Silver, Carole
1986   On the Origin of Fairies: Victorians, Romantics, and Folk Belief.  Browning Institute Studies, 1986, Vol. 14, The Victorian Threshold (1986), pp. 141-156.
 
Slimane
2023   Land of Fairies: Queer New York at the Beginning of the 20th Century. Medium, June 4, 2023, medium.com/@TVRPGhistory/land-of-fairies-f5ff18184934 .
 
Young, Simon
2013   A History of the Fairy Investigation Society, 1927-1960. Folklore, August 2013, Vol. 124, No. 2 (August 2013), pp. 139-156.
2024   The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: An Introduction. The Cottingley Fairy Photographs: New Approaches to Fairies, Fakes and Folklore (ed. Simon Young). Pwca Books and Pamphlets, Coppell, TX, pp. 7-12.
 
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2000   Introduction. The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales (ed. Jack Zipes). Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, pp. xv-xxxii.

In this episode, The Two Humans get even with an in-depth discussion of REVENGE!
Episode 81:  REVENGE! Make Mine Cold and Sweet, Please.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
AZ Quotes
2025   John Milton Quotes about Revenge. AZ Quotes (website), accessed September 24, 2025, www.azquotes.com/author/10164-John_Milton/tag/revenge.
 
Barash, David P. and Judith Eve Lipton
2011   Payback: Why We Retaliate, Redirect Aggression, and Take Revenge. Oxford University Press, Inc., New York, NY.
 
BookBrowse
2025   Revenge is a dish best served cold. BookBrowse (website), accessed September 24, 2025, www.bookbrowse.com/expressions/detail/index.cfm/expression_ number/703/revenge-is-a-dish-best-served-cold.
 
De Quervain, Dominique J-F., Urs Fischbacher, Valerie Treyer, Melanie Schellhammer, Ulrich Schnyder, Alfred Buck, and Ernst Fehr
2004   The Neural Basis of Altruistic Punishment. Science, Vol. 305, August 27, 2004.
 
Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2025   Talion. Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed September 22, 2025, www.britannica.com/topic/talion.
 
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1992   Norms of Revenge. Ethics and Personality: Essays in Moral Psychology (ed. John Deigh), University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
 
Jacoby, Susan
1983   Wild Justice: The Evolution of Revenge.  Harper Colophon Books, New York, NY.
 
 
Jaffe, Eric
2011   The Complicated Psychology of Revenge. Association for Psychological Research (website), October 4, 2011, www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/ the-complicated-psychology-of-revenge.
 
Kimmel, Jr., James
2025   The Science of Revenge: Understanding the World’s Deadliest Addition—and How to Overcome It. Harmony Books, New York, NY.
 
McCullough, Michael E.
2008   Beyond Revenge: The Evolution of the Forgiveness Instinct. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, CA.
 
Murphy, Jeffrie G.
2003   Getting Even: Forgiveness and Its Limits. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.
 
Rohland, Lindsay
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Rosenbaum, Thane
2013   Payback: The Case for Revenge. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.

To celebrate their 80th episode, The Two Humans get a belly full of corn (and we’re not talkin’ about moonshine)!
Episode 80: Gettin’ Corny! The Amazing History of Maize.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
Bailey, Flora L.
1940   Navaho Foods and Cooking Methods. American Anthropologist, Vol. 42(2), pp. 270-290.
 
Biography
2019   Orville Redenbacher. Biography, April 16, 2019, www.biography.com/business-leaders/orville-redenbacher.
 
Castetter, Edward F. and Willis H. Bell
1942   Pima and Papago Indian Agriculture. The University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque. 
 
Christensen, Clyde M. and Henry H. Kaufman
1969   Grain Storage: The Role of Fungi in Quality Loss. University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN.
 
Cleveland Clinic
2025   Pellagra. Cleveland Clinic [website], my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/ 23905-pellagra.
 
Cordell, Linda S., H. Wolcott Toll, Mollie S. Toll, and Thomas C. Windes 
2008   Archaeological Corn from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico: Dates, Contexts, Sources. American Antiquity 73(3), pp. 491–511.
 
Czerwony, Beth
2021   Why Can You See Corn in Your Poop? Cleveland Clinic (website), June 24, 2021, health.clevelandclinic.org/why-can-you-see-corn-in-poop.
 
Dappen, Nathan and Neil Losin (Directors)
2015   Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn [Video]. HHMI Biointeractive, www.biointeractive.org/classroom-resources/popped-secret-mysterious-origin-corn.
 
Davidson, Alan
2002   The Penguin Companion to Food. Penguin Books, London, UK.
 
Devor, E. J. and Linda S. Cordell
1981   Neural-Tube Defects in a Pre-Historic South-Western Indian Population. Annals of Human Biology, 8(1), pp. 65–75.
 
Dickerson, George
1992   A Small-Scale Agriculture Alternative: Specialty Corns. United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC, June 1992.   
 
Fine Dining Lovers Editorial Staff
2023   What Huitlacoche Is and How to Eat It. Fine Dining Lovers (website), March 31, 2023, www.finedininglovers.com/explore/articles/what-huitlacoche-and-how-eat-it.
 
Fussell, Betty
1992   The Story of Corn. University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, NM.
 
Galinat, Walton C.
1988   The Origin of Corn. Corn and Corn Improvement, Third Edition (ed. G. F. Sprague and J. W. Dudley, American Society of Agronomy, Inc., Madison, WI, pp. 1-31.
 
Huff, Leah Alexandra
2006   Sacred Sustenance: Maize, Storytelling, and a Maya Sense of Place. Journal of Latin American Geography, 2006, Vol. 5, No. 1 (2006), pp. 79-96.
 
 
Hussein, Hussein S. and Jeffrey M. Brasel 
2001   Toxicity, Metabolism, and Impact of Mycotoxins on Humans and Animals. Toxicology, Vol. 167, pp. 101–134.
 
Juárez-Montiel, Margarita, Sandra Ruiloba de León, Griselda Chávez-Camarillo, César
Hernández-Rodríguez, and Lourdes Villa-Tanaca
2011   Huitlacoche (Corn Smut), Caused by the Phytopathogenic Fungus Usilago maydis, as a Functional Food. Revista Iberoamericana de Micología, Vol. 28(2), pp. 69–73.
 
Kavena, Juanita Tiger
1980 Hopi Cookery. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson.
 
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1978   2000 Years of Corn in the “Corn Belt.” Central States Archaeological Journal, Vol. 25, No. 4 (OCTOBER, 1978), pp. 180-184.
 
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2022   Teosinte: Corn’s Wild Unruly Ancestor Had a Spiritual Significance. Good Food (podcast), KCRW, December 30, 2022, www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/good-food/masa-corn-history-science-politics-reair/teosinte-corn-ancestors-spiritual-history.
 
Licht, Mark and Zachary Clemens
2021   The Birds and Bees of Corn Pollination. Integrated Crop Management, Iowa State University, Extension and Outreach (website), July 19, 2021, https://crops.extension.iastate.edu/post/ birds-and-bees-corn-pollination.
 
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1996   Fumonisins: History, World-Wide Occurrence and Impact. In Fumonisins in Food (ed. Lauren S. Jackson, Jonathan W. Devries, and Lloyd B. Bullerman). Plenum Press, New York, pp. 1-17.
 
McCray, John
2013   Mycotoxins, Maize, and Site Abandonment in the American Southwest [Master’s Thesis]. New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, NM.
 
Peraica, M., B. Radic, A. Lucic, and M. Pavlovic. 
1999   Toxic Effects of Mycotoxins in Humans. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol. 77(9), pp. 754–766.
 
Radford, Benjamin
2013   Why Can’t Humans Eat Grass? Live Science, January 28, 2013, www.livescience.com/32435-why-cant-humans-eat-grass.html.
 
Rice, Ellie
2018   Popped Secret: The Mysterious Origin of Corn (Film Guide). HHMI Biointeractive (website), January 2018, www.biointeractive.org/sites/ default/files/ PoppedSecret-Educator-film.pdf.
 
Robbins, Wilfred William, John Peabody Harrington, and Barbara Freire-Marreco 
1916   Ethnobotany of the Tewa Indians (Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 55. Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
 
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2025   Corn Pollination: The Nerdy Gardener's Complete Guide. Sow True Seed (website), accessed June 24, 2025, sowtrueseed.com/blogs/ gardening/corn-pollination-the-nerdy-gardeners-complete-guide.
 
 
Snow, David H. 
1990   Tener Comal y Metate: Protohistoric Rio Grande Maize Use and Diet (ed. Paul E. Minnis and Charles L. Redman). Perspectives on Southwest Prehistory, Westview Press, Inc., Boulder, CO, pp. 289-300.
 
USDA National Agricultural Library
2025   Early History. USDA National Agricultural Library (website), www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/exhibits/show/popcorn/early-history, accessed August 29, 2025.
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Wetterstrom, Wilma
1986   Food, Diet, and Population at Prehistoric Arroyo Hondo Pueblo, New Mexico. School of American Research Press, Santa Fe.
 
 

In this episode, The Two Humans discuss COLORS and what happens when “our brains and the universe meet.” Oh, wow, man; like, far out!!
Episode 79: Well, Sex Me Up and Color Me Bad!! A Kaleidoscopic Look at Colors
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
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Resources:
 
Brusatin, Manlio
1991   A History of Colors. Shambhala, Boston, MA. 
 
Cleveland Clinic
2025   Synesthesia. Cleveland Clinic (website), accessed June 9, 2025, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/symptoms/24995-synesthesia.
 
D’Andrade, R. and M. Egan
1974   The Colors of Emotion. American Ethnologist,  Feb., 1974, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Feb., 1974), pp. 49-63.
 
Deak, Megan
2024   Why Were Roman Citizens Punished for Wearing Purple? WorldAtlas.com (website), February 16, 2024, www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/why-were-roman-citizens-punished-for-wearing-purple.html.
 
Deutscher, Guy
2010   Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages. Picador, New York, NY. 
 
Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2025   Kaleidoscope: Optical Device. Encyclopaedia Britannica (website), accessed July 11, 2025, www.britannica.com/technology/kaleidoscope.
 
Eriksen Translations
2025   How Translating Colors Across Cultures Can Help You Make a Positive Impact. Eriksen Translations (website), February 3, 2020, eriksen.com/marketing/ color_culture/.
 
Finlay, Victoria
2002   Color: A Natural History of the Palette. Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York, NY. 
 
Fox, James
2021   The World According to Color: A Cultural History. Penguin Books, London, UK. 
 
Girard, Jeremy
2019   Visual Color Symbolism Chart by Culture. ThoughtCo, September 25, 2019, www.thoughtco.com/visual-color-symbolism-chart-by-culture-4062177.
 
Gloye, Eugene E.
1957   Why Are There Primary Colors? The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Critism, Sep., 1957, Vol. 16, No. 1 (Sep., 1957), pp. 128-131.
 
Gregonis, Linda M. and Victoria R. Evans
2025   The Hohokam and Their World: An Exploration of Art and Iconography. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, AZ.
 
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011   Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Ninth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
 
Jones, Nicola
2022   Over the Rainbow: How Culture Shapes Color. Atmos (website), November 1, 2022, atmos.earth/over-the-rainbow-color-perception-science/.
 
Jones, Tim
2010   Unweaving the Rainbow. Communicate Science (website), February 28, 2010, communicatescience.com/zoonomian/2010/02/28/unweaving-the-rainbow/.
 
Josserand, Mathilde, Emma Meeussen, Asifa Majid, and Dan Dediu
2021   Environment and Culture Shape Both the Colour Lexicon and the Genetics of Colour Perception. Nature.com, September 27, 2021, www.nature.com/ articles/ s41598-021-98550-3.
 
Kareklas, Ioannis, Frederic F. Brunel, and Robin A. Coulter
2014   Judgment Is Not Color Blind. Journal of Consumer Psychology, Vol. 24, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 87-95.
 
Kean, Sam
2022   Could Claude Monet See Like a Bee? Distillations Magazine, January 11, 2022, www.sciencehistory.org/stories/magazine/could-claude-monet-see-like-a-bee/.
 
Keats, John
2025   Lamia. Part II. Poeticous (website), www.poeticous.com/keats/lamia-part-ii, accessed July 14, 2025.
 
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
2011   Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Addition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
 
Madden, Thomas J., Kelly Hewett, and Martin S. Roth
2000   Managing Images in Different Cultures: A Cross-National Study of Color Meanings and Preferences. Journal of International Marketing, 2000, Vol. 8, No. 4 (2000), pp. 90-107.  
 
Meyers, Harriet
2021   Can Dogs See Color? American Kennel Club (website), December 7, 2021,   www.akc.org/expert-advice/health/can-dogs-see-color/.
 
 
Nostalgia Central
2025   X-Ray Specs. Nostalgia Central (website), nostalgiacentral.com/pop-culture/fads/x-ray-specs/, accessed July 12, 2025.
 
Psychology Today
2025   Synesthesia. Psychology Today (website), accessed June 9, 2025 www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/synesthesia.
 
Qiblawi, Adnan
2024   Art Bites: Could Monet See into the Ultraviolet Spectrum. ArtNet, September 18, 2024, news.artnet.com/art-world/art-bites-could-monet-see-into-the-ultraviolet-spectrum-2538474.
 
Robinson, Jefferson
2022   Colour Semiotics and What They Mean in Other Cultures. Buzzword (website), February 27, 2022, buzzwordcreative.co.uk/colour-semiotics-and-what-they-mean-in-other-cultures/.
 
Shech, Elay and Michaeol Watkins
2025   Colors are objective, according to two philosophers—even though the blue you see doesn’t match what I see. The Conversation, April 25, 2025,  theconversation.com/colors-are-objective-according-to-two-philosophers-even-though-the-blue-you-see-doesnt-match-what-i-see-234467.
 
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2016   What Colors Mean in Other Cultures. HuffPost.com, January 26, 2016, www.huffpost.com/entry/what-colors-mean-in-other_b_9078674.
 
St. Clair, Kassia
2016   The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, New York, NY.
 
Wikipedia.org
2025   I Wanna Sex You Up. Wikipedia.org  (website), accessed July 11, 2025, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_Wanna_Sex_You_Up.
 

Pronouns are little words that cause big problems. In this episode, The Two Humans discuss the quest for a non-gendered, third-person, personal pronoun.
Episode 78: BYOP (Bring Your Own Pronoun): The Profound Power of Personal Pronouns.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
 
Anderson, James
1792 Grammatical Disquisitions. The Bee or Literary Weekly Intelligencer, Volume Eleventh, James Anderson, Edinburgh, Scotland, pp. 120-130. 
 
Baron, Dennis
2020 What’s Your Pronoun? Beyond He & She. Liveright Publishing Corporation, New York, NY.  
 
Behrens, Susan J. 
2014 English Pronouns Revealed. Research and Teaching in Developmental Education, Spring 2014, Vol. 30, No. 2, (Spring 2014), pp. 91-95.  
 
Blake, Frank R. 
1934 The Origin of Pronouns of the First and Second Person. The American Journal of Philology, Vol. 55, No. 3 (1934), pp. 244-248. 
 
Bullock, Barbara
2001 On the Use of ils for elles: Gender Syncretism in the History of French. The French Review, Mar., 2001, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Mar., 2001), pp. 700-709
 
Curzan, Anne
1996 Third Person Pronouns in the ‘Peterborough Chronicle.’ Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 1996, Vol. 97, No. 3 (1996), pp. 301-314.
 
Fleming, Grace
2018 Dangling Participle: Explanation and Examples. ThoughtCo.com, December 22, 2018, www.thoughtco.com/what-is-a-dangling-participle-1857150.
Flom, George T.
1908 Contributions to the History of English. I: The Origin of the Pronoun “She.” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Apr., 1908, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1908), pp. 115-125.  
 
Foertsch, Julie and Morton Ann Gernsbacher
1997 In Search of Gender Neutrality: Is Singular “They” a Cognitively Efficient Substitute for Generic “He”? Psychological Science, Mar., 1997, Vol. 8, No. 2 (mar., 1997), pp. 106-111. 
 
Grammarly.com
2024 What Are Split Infinitives? Meaning and Examples. Grammarly.com, January 18, 2024, www.grammarly.com/blog/grammar/split-infinitives/.
 
Hogan, Pat, Gayle Roberts and Farren Gillaspie
2017 Why Does Language Matter? Counterpoints, 2017, Vol. 485, Basically Queer: An Intergeneration Introduction to LGBTQA2S+ Lives (2017), pp. 8-17. 
 
Hope, Jonathan
1993 Second Person Singular Pronouns in Records of Early Modern ‘Spoken’ English. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 1993, Vol. 94, No. 1 (1993), pp. 83-100. 
 
HRC Foundation
2025 Glossary of Terms. Human Rights Campaign (website), accessed May 26, 2025, www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms.
 
Kottak, Conrad Phillip
2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity, Fourteenth Addition. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
Lakoff, Robin Tolmach
1975 Language and Woman’s Place in Language and Woman’s Place: Text and Commentaries (ed. by Mary Bucholz), 2004, Oxford University Books, Oxford, UK.
1990 Talking Power: The Politics of Language. Basic Books, New York, NY.  
 
Livia, Anna
2001 Pronoun Envy: Literary Uses of Linguistic Gender. Oxford University Press, New York, NY.  
 
MacNamara, Jessica, Sarah Glann and Paul Durlak
2017 Experiencing Misgendered Pronouns: A Classroom Activity to Encourage Empathy. Teaching Sociology, JULY 2017, Vol. 45, No. 3 (JULY 2017), pp. 269-278.
 
Martyna, Wendy
1980 Beyond the “He/Man” Approach: The Case for Nonsexist Language. Signs, Spring, 1980, Vol. 5, No. 3 (Spring, 1980), pp. 482-493.
 
McWhorter, John
2025 Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Sevel Little Words. Avery, New York, NY.  
 
Pennebaker, James W.
2011 The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say about Us. Bloomsbury Publishing, New York, NY. 
 
Schilt, Kristen and Laurel Westbrook
2015 Bathroom Battlegrounds and Penis Panics. Contexts, SUMMER 2015, Vol. 11, No. 3, Moving through Time and Space (SUMMER 2015), pp. 26-31. 
 
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2025 Where Did the Oxford Comma Come From, and Why Is It So Important?. Scribendi.com (website), accessed July 5, 2025, www.scribendi.com/academy/ articles/oxford_comma_importance.en.html.  
 
Shakespeare, William
2025 Act 3, Scene 1 from Romeo and Juliet. The Folger Shakespeare Library (website), accessed June 11, 2025, www.folger.edu/explore/shakespeares-works/romeo-and-juliet/read/3/1/.
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Simpson, Paul and Andrea Mayr
2010 Language and Power: A Resource Book for Students. Routledge, Abingdon, UK.  
 
Stock, Braxton Phoenix
2023 Understanding Gender Identity. Braxton Phoenix Stock, Coppell, TX.  
 
Svartengren, T. Hilding
1927 The Feminine Gender for Inanimate Things in Anglo-American. American Speech, Dec., 1927, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec., 1927), pp. 83-113. 
 
Swick, Ed
2011 English Pronouns and Prepositions (Second Edition). McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.  
 
Vocabulary.com
2025 “Dangling Participle.” Vocabulary.com Dictionary (website), accessed June 10, 2025, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/dangling participle.
 
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2005 Linguistic Gender Marking and Categorization. Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 32, No. 2, (September 2005), pp. 224-234. 
 

The Two Humans go searching for the Iron Age and discover the ancestor of reality television instead.  
Episode 77: Iron Age House: “Living in the Past” and the Evolution of Reality TV
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
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Resources:
Anderson, Jay
1982 Living History: Simulating Everyday Life in Living Museums. American Quarterly, Vol. 34, No. 3 (1982), pp. 290-306.
 
BFI Screenonline
2025 Living in the Past (1978). BFI Screenonline (website), accessed May 31, 2025, screenonline.org.uk/tv/id/583427/.
 
Current Archaeology
2025 Building the Past: Reconstructing a Late Neolithic House from Wyke Down. Current Archaeology, April 28, 2025, Issue 423, the-past.com/feature/building-the-past-reconstructing-a-late-neolithic-house-from-wyke-down/#.
 
Dolan, Brian
2016 Making Iron in the Irish Midlands: The Social and Symbolic Role of Iron Age Ironworkers. The Journal of Irish Archaeology, Vol. 25 (2016), pp. 31-48.
 
Dowling, Tim
2015 10,000 BC Review: ‘It might make you wish you lived in a time before television.’ The Guardian, February 3, 2015, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/03/10000-bc-review-channel-5-reality-series#:~:text=It.
 
Firstbrook, Peter
2001 Surviving the Iron Age. BBC Worldwide Ltd, London, UK.
 
Greene, Kevin and Tom Moore
2010 Archaeology: An Introduction (Fifth Edition). Routledge, London, UK.
 
Hodder, Ian
2001 Introduction: A Revival of Contemporary Theoretical Debates in Archaeology. Archaeological Theory Today (ed. Ian Hodder), pp. 1-13.Jodelka, Filipa
2015 10,000 BC: ‘They’d face disaster in their modern lives, never mind the prehistoric ones. The Guardian, February 7, 2015, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2015/feb/02/10000-bc-reality-show-preview.
 
Llawerch, Will
2022 The Little Book of Iron Age Skills. Endeavour Productions Canada, Coppell, TX.
 
McCarthy, Patrick
2014 “Living History” As the “Real Thing”: A Comparative Analysis of the Modern Mountain Man Rendezvous, Renaissance Fairs, and Civil War Reenactments. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, April 2014, Vol. 71, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 106-123.
 
Nussbaum, Emily
2024 Cue the Sun: The Invention of Reality TV. Random House, New York, NY.
 
Percival, John
1980 Living in the Past: A Journey Back to the Iron Age. British Broadcasting Corporation, London, UK.  
 
Peterson, David
1988 IN MY OPINION: There Is No Living History, There Are No Time Machines. History News, September/October 1988, Vol. 43, No. 5 (September/October 1988), pp. 28-30.
 
Poole, Michael (Executive Producer)
2007 What Happened Next? Living in the Past. [Television Program]. BBC Bristol.
Powell, Eric A.
2015 Hillforts of the Iron Age. Archaeology, November/December 2015, Vol. 68, No. 6 (November/December 2015), pp. 54-56, 58, 60, 62-63. 
 
Renfrew, Colin
2001 Symbol before Concept: Material Engagement and the Early Development of Society. Archaeological Theory Today (ed. Ian Hodder), pp. 122-140.
 
Renfrew, Colin and Paul Bahn
2008 Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice (Fifth Edition). Thames and Hudson, New York, NY.
 
Rose, Randall L. and Stacy L. Wood
2005 Paradox and the Consumption of Authenticity through Reality Television. Journal of Consumer Research, Vol. 32, No. 2 (September 2005), pp. 284-296. 
 
Williams, Joe
2025 Beltain Celtic Fire Festival at Butser Ancient Farm – Crowds Dazzled by Burning of 40 ft. Wickerman. The News, May 4, 2025, www.portsmouth.co.uk/news /people/beltain-celtic-fire-festival-at-butser-ancient-farm-crowds-dazzled-by-burning-of-40ft-wickerman-5112680.
 
 
 

Calling all high rollers! The Two Humans roll the dice and discuss why humans love to gamble. Trust me, this episode is a sure bet!
Episode 76: Come on! Daddy Needs a New Pair of Shoes
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542
IG @introtoanthrowith2humans
Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=136195011
 
Resources:
American Gaming Association
2025 Commercial Gaming Tracker. American Gaming Association (website), April 17, 2025, www.americangaming.org/resources/commercial-gaming-revenue-tracker/.
 
Anonymous, Henrietta Bowden-Jones, and Sanju George
2012 Gambling Addiction. BMJ: British Medical Journal, 7 January 2012, Vol. 344, No. 7838 (7 January 2012), pp. 47-49. 
 
Asbury, Herbert
1938 Sucker’s Progress: An Informal History of Gambling in America. Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, NY.
 
Betts, Anna
2025 Sports Betting Firms Claim Their Programs Are ‘Not Designed’ to Enable Problem Bettors—But Advocates Are Skeptical. The Guardian, February 22, 2025, www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/22/sports-betting-vip-programs.
 
Borghesi, Richard
2008 Widespread Corruption in Sports Gambling: Fact or Fiction? Southern Economic Journal, Apr., 2008, Vol. 74, No. 4 (Apr., 2008), pp. 1063-1069. 
 
Carran, Malzgorzata (Margaret) 
2013 Minors and Gambling Addiction. European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2013, Vol. 4, No. 4 (2013), pp. 509-520. 
 
Chadwick, Meloney Crawford
2004 Gambling. GPSolo, OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2004, Vol. 21, No. 7, More Bumps in the Road (OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2004), pp. 46-47. 
Cline, Austin
2017 Macuilxochitl: Macuilxochitl, God of Gambling in Aztec Religion. Learn Religions,  March 15, 2017, www.learnreligions.com/macuilxochitl-aztec-god-of-gambling-248585. 
 
DraftKings
2025 What Is a Point Spread Bet? DraftKings (website), accessed May 3, 2025, help.draftkings.com/hc/en-us/articles/4405230599955-What-is-a-point-spread-bet-US.
 
Duke University Medical Center
2005 Gambling Monkeys Give Insight into the Neural Machinery of Risk. Science Daily.com (website), August 23, 2005, www.sciencedaily.com/releases/ 2005/ 08/050823080657.htm.
 
Eadington, William R.
1999 The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Summer, 1999, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Summer, 1999), pp. 173-192. 
 
Fisher, Eric
2025 Americans Bet $148 Billion on Sports in 2024, Up 23.6%. Front Office Sports, February 20, 2025, frontofficesports.com/americans-bet-148-billion-on-sports-in-2024-up-23-6/.
 
Greenberg, Doug
2025 U.S. Sports Betting Industry Post Record $13.7B Revenue for ’24. ESPN, February 19, 2025, www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/43922129/us-sports-betting-industry-posts-record-137b-revenue-24.
 
Guardian Staff
2025 John Oliver on US Sports Betting: ‘It Shouldn’t Be This Easy to Love This Much. The Guardian, March 17, 2025, www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/17/john-oliver-last-week-tonight-betting.
 
Haines, Lester
2004 HK Feds Bust Illegal Cricket Fighting Ring. The Register, August 16, 2004, https://www.theregister.com/2004/08/16/cricket_fighting_ring/.
 
Henson, Steve
2025 Fans Say the Games Are Rigged for the Chiefs. Are the Officials on Kansas City’s Side.The Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2025, sports.yahoo.com/ officials-favoring-chiefs-drue-tranquill-190921412.html.
 
Janvrin, Richard
2025 Point Spread Betting: Sports Betting Guide. PennLive.com, April 2, 2025, www.pennlive.com/betting/guides/pointspread/.
 
Lesieur, Henry R. and Robert L. Custer
1984 Pathological Gambling: Roots, Phases, and Treatment. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Jul., 1984, Vol. 474, Gambling: Views from the Social Sciences (Jul., 1984), pp. 146-156.
 
Nair, Nitten
2025 Macuilxochitl: God of Games. MythLok (website), accessed May 5, 2025, mythlok.com/macuilxochitl/.
 
Ouellette, Jennifer
2024 Archaeologist Believe This Bronze Age Board Game Is the Oldest Yet Found. Arstechnica.com, September 16, 2024, arstechnica.com/science/2024/09/ archaeologists-believe-this-bronze-age-board-game-is-the-oldest-yet-found/.
 
Pappas, Stephanie
2022 Ancient Game Board Could Be a Missing Link Tied to the Egyptian Book of the Dead. Live Science, August 26, 2022, www.livescience.com/board-game-tied-to-egyptian-book-of-dead.html.
Parlett, David
2025 Faro. Encyclopedia Britannica (website), accessed May 5, 2025, www.britannica.com/topic/faro-card-game.
 
Perdum, David
2024 Study: ‘Angry Bettors’ behind Growing Abuse of NCAA Athletes. ESPN, October 28, 2024, www.espn.com/college-sports/story/_/id/41665899/study-angry-bettors-growing-abuse-ncaa-athletes.
 
Reynolds, Mike
2024 American Gaming Association: Legal Sports Betting Hit Record Revenue in 2023. S&P Global, February 21, 2024, www.spglobal.com/market-intelligence/en/news-insights/articles/2024/2/american-gaming-association-legal-sports-betting-hits-record-revenue-in-2023-80522087.
 
Schwartz, David G.
2006 Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling. Gotham Books, New York, NY.
 
Smith, Travis R., Michael J. Beran, and Michael E. Young
2017 Gambling in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta): The Effects of Cues Signaling Risky Choice Outcomes. Learning & Behavior, April 18, 2017, Vol. 45, pp. 288-299.
 
Stinchfield, Randy and Ken C. Winters
1998 Gambling and Problem Gambling among Youths. The Annals of Political and Social Science, Mar., 1998, Vol. 556, Gambling: Socioeconomic Impacts and Public Policy (Mar., 1998), pp. 172-185. 
 
Traina, Jimmy
2025 Troy Aikman Talks about Calling Out Refs, NFL During Texans-Chiefs Playoff Game.Sports Illustrated, January 30, 2025, www.krqe.com/sports/sports-illustrated/c9c44025/troy-aikman-talks-about-calling-out-refs-nfl-during-texans-chiefs-playoff-game/.

Think YOU can do it better? In this episode, The Two Humans take a swing at creating a better world. The suggestion box is outside the entrance to the communal showers.
Episode 75: I’ll Topia if U-topia: Why It’s So Hard to Create a Perfect World.
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Backhouse, Fid and others
2025 Cambodian Genocide. The Encyclopedia Britannica, March 21, 2025, www.britannica.com/event/Cambodian-Genocide.
 
Budds, Diana
2019 Inside Paraguay’s Failed Aryan ‘Utopia.’ Curbed, June 28, 2019, archive.curbed.com/2019/6/28/18744439/nueva-germania-failed-utopia.
 
Claeys, Gregory
2011 Searching for Utopia: The History of an Idea. Thames & Hudson, New York, NY. 
2017 Dystopia: A Natural History. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
 
Delano, Sterling F. 
2004 Brook Farm: The Dark Side of Utopia. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.  
 
Dobson, Jim
2023 How to Rule Your Own Country: Inside the Outrageous World of Micronations. Forbes, September 21, 2023, www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2023/09/21/how-to-rule-your-own-country-inside-the-outrageous-world-of-micronations/.
 
Douglas, Jennifer
2022 Failed Dreams of Building ‘New Australia’ Utopia in Australia in Paraguay Jungle in 19th Century. Australian Broadcasting Corporation News, November 26, 2022 www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-27/history-of-failed-attempt-to-build-new-australia-in-paraguay/101590946.
 
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2022 Elysium. Greekgodsandgoddesses.net, January 24, 2022, greekgodsandgoddesses.net/myths/elysium/.
 
Greene, Vivien
2011 Utopia/Dystopia. American Art, Vol. 25, No. 2 (Summer 2011), pp. 2-7. 
 
Griffin, Sean
2018 Antislavery Utopias. Journal of the Civil War Era, Vol. 8, No. 2, The Future of Abolition Studies: A Special Issue (June 2018), pp. 243-268.
 
Hesiod
2025 Hesiod, Works and Days (trans. Gregory Nagy). Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (website), accessed April 27, 2025, chs.harvard.edu/primary-source/hesiod-works-and-days-sb/.
 
Kagan, Paul
1975 New World Utopias: A Photographic History of the Search for Community. Penguin Books, New York, NY. 
 
Kumar, Krishan
2010 The Ends of Utopia. New Literary History, Summer 2010, Vol. 41, No. 3 (Summer 2010), pp. 549-569. 
 
Lewis, Danny
2016 This Art Show Looks at 500 Years of Failed Utopias. Smithsonian Magazine, December 29, 2016, www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/art-show-looks-500-years-failed-utopias-180961587/.
 
More, Thomas
2003 Utopia (trans. Paul Turner). Penguin Books, New York, NY.
 
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2025 National Cambodian Heritage Museum and Killings Field Memorial (website), www.cambodianmuseum.org/remembering-the-killing-fields.
 
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2023 Secular Utopias in America. National Park Service (website), October 23, 2023, www.nps.gov/articles/000/secular-utopias-in-america.htm.
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1949 1984. Berkley/Mariner, New York, NY. 
 
Reed, Lawrence
2021 The Dark Side of Paradise: A Brief History of America’s Utopian Experiments in Communal Living. Foundation for Economic Education (website), June 13, 2021, fee.org/articles/the-dark-side-of-paradise-a-brief-history-of-americas-utopian-experiments-in-communal-living/.
 
Rickett, Oscar
2018 Failed ‘Utopias’ Throughout History. VICE, April 9, 2018, www.vice.com/ en/article/failed-utopias-throughout-history-v25n1/.
 
Sargent, Lyman Tower and Lucy Sargisson
2014 Sex in Utopia: Eutopian and Dystopian Sexual Relations. Utopian Studies, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2014), pp. 299-320. 
 
Savage, Rachel
2012 The World’s Top 5 Failed Utopias. The Isis, May 15, 2012, isismagazine. org.uk/about-us/

You better take a knee because in this episode, The Two Humans discuss everything from squatting to bean bag chairs.
Episode 74: Taking a Sit: 5,000 Years of Taking a Load Off
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Bennett, Henry Eastman
1925 A Study of School Posture and Seating. The Elementary School Journal, Sep., 1925, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Sep., 1925), pp. 50-57. 
 
British Medical Journal
1904 School Desks and Posture. The British Medical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 2288 (Nov. 5, 1904), pp. 1263-1264. 
 
Chockalingam, Nachiappan
2020 Sitting on the Floor: Is It Better Than Sitting in a Chair? The Conversation, July 29, 2020, www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/health/floor-sitting-benefits-wellness-partner/index.html.
 
Danto, Arthur C.
1987 The Seat of the Soul: Three Chairs. Grand Street, Summer, 1987, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Summer, 1987), pp. 157-176. 
 
Dhawan, Nikhil
2020 A Brief History of Sitting. Students of Living (website), July 19, 2020, www.studentsofliving.com/post/a-brief-history-of-sitting#.
 
Fuller, Robert C. and Derek E. Montgomery
2015 Body Posture and Religious Attitudes. Archiv fur Religionspsychologie/Archive for the Psychology of Religion, 2015, Vol. 37, No. 3 (2015), pp. 227-239.
 
Harris, Trudier
1996 Porch-Sitting as a Creative Southern Tradition. Southern Cultures, 1996, Vol. 2, No. 3/4 (1996), pp. 441-460. 
Hewes, Gordon W.
1955 World Distribution of Postural Habits. American Anthropologist, Apr., 1955, New Series, Vol. 57, No. 2, Part 1 (Apr., 1955), pp. 231-244. 
 
Icalla, Del
2024 Japanese Sitting Traditions. Nipino.com (website), January 19, 2024, www.nipino.com/japanese-sitting-traditions.  
 
Jameson, Marni
2014 Sitting through History: Chair Designs through the Ages Reflect Changes in Materials, Technology, and Society. The Times Picayune, October 13, 2014, www.nola.com/entertainment_life/home_garden/sitting-through-history-chair-designs-through-the-ages-reflect-changes-in-materials-technology-and-society/article_5d27d534-7d87-5f75-b4cd-d9977fa74c04.html.
 
Katella, Kathy
2019 Why Is Sitting So Bad for Us? Yale Medicine, August 28, 2019, www.yalemedicine.org/news/sitting-health-risks. 
 
Kikuchi, Hiroyuki, Shigeru Inoue, Yuko Odagiri, Manami Inoue, et al.
2015 Occupational Sitting Time and Risk of All-Cause Mortality among Japanese Workers. Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, November 2015, Vol. 41, No. 6 (November 2015), pp. 519-528. 
 
Rybczynski, Witold
2016 Now I Sit Me Down: From Klismos to Plastic Chair (A Natural History). Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY. 
 
Straker, Leon M., Peter B. O’Sullivan, Anne Smith, and Mark Perry
2007 Computer Use and Habitual Spinal Posture in Australian Adolescents. Public Health Reports (1974-), Sep. – Oct., 2007, Vol. 122, No. 5 (Sep. – Oct., 2007), pp. 634-643. 
 
Tenner, Edward
1997 How the Chair Conquered the World. The Wilson Quarterly (1976-), Spring, 1997, Vol. 21, No. 2 (Spring, 1997), pp. 64-70. 
 
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1998 The Rise and Fall of American Posture. The American Historical Review, Oct., 1998, Vol. 103, No. 4 (Oct., 1998), pp.1057-1095.
 

Are you a hepcat, a skibidi rizzler, an NPC, or a square? In this episode, The Two Humans wrap their tongues around the latest lingo. You dig, Daddy-o?
Episode 73: Slinging the Slang
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
 
Behrens, Cole
2024   Did You Just Get Mogged by a Skibidi Rizzler? Gen Alpha Slang Explained. The Columbus Dispatch, August 17, 2024, www.dispatch.com/story/ news/local/2024/08/17/skibidi-toilet-ohio-rizz-gen-alpha-slang-terms-meaning/74702923007/
 
Cassidy, Daniel
2007   How the Irish Invented Slang: The Secret Language of the Crossroads. CounterPunch, Petrolia, CA.
 
Coleman, Julie
2012   The Life of Slang. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
 
Cook, Tim
2013   Fighting Words: Canadian Soldiers’ Slang and Swearing in the Great War. War in History, July 2013, Vol. 20, No. 3 (July 2013), pp. 323-344.
 
Gates, Shivonne M. and Christian Idbury
2019   Standard Language Ideology and the Non-Standard Adolescent Speaker. Voices and Practices in Applied Linguistics: Diversifying a Discipline (ed. C. Wright, L. Harvey, and J. Simpson), White Rose University Press, York, UK, pp. 109-125.
 
Green, Jonathon
2015   The Vulgar Tongue: Green’s History of Slang. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK.
 
Holmes, Janet and Nick Wilson
2017   An Introduction to Sociolinguistics (Fifth Edition). Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
 
Kipfer, Barbara Ann (ed.)
2008   American Slang (Fourth Edition). HarperCollins, New York, NY.
 
Mathews, Sr., Michael R.
2025   Slang Through the Ages. Michael R. Mathews, Sr. (self-published), January 9, 2025.
 
McPhee, M. C.
1927   College Slang. American Speech, Dec., 1927, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Dec., 1927), pp. 131-133.
 
McRae, Rick
2001   ‘What Is Hip?’ and Other Inquiries in Jazz Slang Lexicography. Notes, Mar., 2001, Second Series, Vol. 57, No. 3 (Mar., 2001), pp. 574-584.
 
Morin, Amy
2025   Parents, Here’s the 2025 Teen Slang You Need to Know. Parents, January 9, 2025, www.parents.com/teen-slang-dictionary-for-parents-8547711.
 
Puchner, Martin
2020   The Language of Thieves. W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY.
 
Rizzler, Ohio
2024   Brainrot: The Gen-A Slang Lexicon. Elevated Publishing, Coppell, TX.
 
Rodrigues, Isabelle and Ted Neather
2007   Streetwise French: Speak and Understand Everyday French. McGraw-Hill, New York, NY.
 
Sullivan, Joseph M
1921   Criminal Slang. The Virginia Law Review, May, 1921, New Series, Vol. 7, No. 1 (May, 1921), pp. 9-17.
 
Tanner, Jeremy
2024   The 10 Most Searched for Slang Words of 2024. MSN.com, November 3, 2024, www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/see-the-10-most-searched-for-slang-words-of-2024/ar-AA1tqIvC.
 
Thrush, Catherine
2015   A New Look at Old Words: Street Slang from the 1600s to 1800s. Urban Realms, urbanrealms.com.
 
Whitman, Walt
1885   Slang in America. The North American Review, Nov., 1885, Vol. 141, No. 348 (Nov., 1885), pp. 431-435.
 
 
 

Forget Bladerunner, I Robot, and The Jetsons! In this episode, The Two Humanoids discuss the truth about the coming AI-human merger. You’re going to need a full battery pack for this one!
Episode 72: One Singularity Sensation Every Exponential Step It Takes
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
 
Attenborough, Richard (Director)
1985   A Chorus Line [Film]. Embassy Films, PolyGram Pictures, and A Feuer and Martin Production.
 
Capek, Karel
1920   R.U.R. Rossum’s Universal Robots. Directed by Brandi Douglas, October 23, 2021, The Majestic Theatre, Corvallis, OR, Facebook Livestream.
 
Etzioni, Amitai and Oren Etzioni
2017   Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated? Issues in Science and Technology, Summer 2017, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Summer 2017), pp. 32-36.
 
Heilpern, John
2006   A Masterpiece Revived: One Singular Sensation? Observer, October 16, 2006, observer.com/2006/10/a-masterpiece-revived-one-singular-sensation-2/.
 
Kurzweil, Ray
2005   The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. Penguin Books, New York, NY.
2024   The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI. Viking, New York, NY.
 
Levy, David
2007   Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships. HarperCollins e-books, New York, NY.
 
Moran, Michael
2007   Rossum’s Universal Robots: Not the Machines. Journal of Endourology, December 2007, Volume 21, Number 12, pp. 1399-1402, www.endourology.org /images/endourology-history-articles/Rossums-Universal-Robots-Not-the-Machines.pdf.
 
Rouhiainen, Lasse
2024   ChatGPT: 101 Things You Must Know Today about ChatGPT and Generative AI. Lasse Rouhiainen (Self-Published).
 
Shanahan, Murray
2015   The Technological Singularity. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
 
Steinberg, Avi
2023   The Science of Cartooning. Steinberg Draws Cartoons (website), April 28, 2023, steinbergdrawscartoons.substack.com/p/the-science-of-cartooning.
 
Thompson, Tok
2019   Ghost Stories from the Uncanny Valley. Western Folklore, Winter 2019, Vol. 78, No. 1 (Winter 2019), pp. 39-66.
 
Tuck, Jay
2019   Mankind’s Greatest Challenge: Artificial Intelligence. The Antioch Review, Vol. 77, No. 3 (Summer 2019), pp. 447-456.
 
Wheeler, J. Craig
2024   The Path to Singularity: How Technology Will Challenge the Future of Humanity. Prometheus Books, Essex, CT.
 
 

Calling all sherd nerds and pot-heads! The Two Humans get their hands dirty as they look at the history and significance of prehistoric pottery!
Episode 71 – Totally Potted: A Crash Course in Prehistoric Pottery
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
 
Associated Press
2012 Ancient Chinese Pottery Confirmed as the Oldest Yet Found. The Guardian, June 28, 2012, www.theguardian.com/science/2012/jun/28/ancient-chinese-pottery-oldest-yet.
 
Booker, Margaret Moore
2013 Southwest Art Defined: An Illustrated Guide. Rio Nuevo Publishers, Tucson, AZ. 
 
Childs, Craig
2010 Finders Keepers: A Tale of Archaeological Plunder and Obsession. Little, Brown and Company, New York, NY.
 
Cordell, Linda
2009 Archaeology of the Southwest (Second Edition). Left Coast Press, Inc., Walnut Creek, CA. 
 
Crown, Patricia
2007 Life Histories of Pots and Potters: Situating the Individual in Archaeology. American Antiquity, Oct., 2007, Vol. 72, No. 4 (Oct., 2007), pp. 677-690. 
 
Davis, Liam
2023 Greek Pottery—The History of Ancient Greek Vase Designs. Artfilemagazine.com, July 31, 2023, artfilemagazine.com/greek-pottery/.
 
Encyclopedia Britannica
2024 Greek Pottery. Encyclopedia Britannica (website), accessed January 6, 2025, www.britannica.com/art/Greek-pottery.
Glueck, Grace
2006 Museum of American Indian’s ‘Born of Clay’ Explores Culture through Ceramics. The New York Times, July 1, 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/07/01/arts/design/ 01clay.html
 
Greene, Kevin and Tom Moore
2010 Archaeology: An Introduction (Fifth Edition). Routledge, Abingdon, UK.
 
Harmon, Karris
2024 Man Ordered to Rebury History after Unearthing Spanish Artifact at Fort Pickens. WEAR News 3, April 16, 2024, weartv.com/news/local/man-ordered-to-rebury-history-after-unearthing-spanish-artifact-at-fort-pickens.
 
Harrington, Spencer P. M.
1991 The Looting of Arkansas. Archaeology, May/June 1991, Vol. 44, No. 3 (May/June 1991), pp. 22-30. 
 
Haviland, William A., Dana Walrath, Harold E. L. Prins, and Bunny McBride
2011 Evolution and Prehistory: The Human Challenge, Ninth Edition. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA.
 
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2003 The Complete Potter. Barron’s Educational Series, Hauppauge, NY.
 
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1993 Pottery in Archaeology. Cambridge University Press, New York, NY.
 
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2009 Drugs, Guns, and Dirt. Archaeology, March/April 2009, Vol. 62, No. 2 (March/April 2009), pp. 45-47. 
 
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2008 Archaeology: Theories, Methods, and Practice (Fifth Edition). Thames & Hudson, New York, NY.
 
Rice, Prudence M.
1987 Pottery Analysis: A Sourcebook. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL.
 
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1995 Art History (Volume One). Prentice Hall, Inc. and Harry, N. Abrams, Inc. New York, NY.
 
Yin, Tongyun and Zheng Wei
2023 Early to Medieval Chinese Pottery. Weldon Owen, San Rafael, CA.

Oh, waiter! The Two Humans reserve a table for two as they discuss the history of dining out and restaurants. Check, please!
Episode 70 – Dining Out: A Hungry Human’s History of Restaurants
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
 
Broomfield, Andrea
2022   Iconic Restaurants of Kansas City. American Palate, Charleston, SC.
 
Chicago Waffles
2024   Why Dining Out Makes People Happier. Chicago Waffles (website) (accessed December 21, 2024), www.chicagowaffles.com/dining-out-west-loop-chicago-2/.
 
Cooke, Michael
2024   How Real Are the Depictions of Popular Restaurant Movies and TV Shows. Eat Out (website), March 20, 2024, www.eatout.co.za/article/real-depictions-popular-restaurant-movies-tv-shows/.
 
Dusselier, Jane
2009   Understandings of Food as Culture. Environmental History, April 2009, Vol. 14, No. 2 (April 2009), pp. 331-338.
 
Fields, Roger
2014   Restaurant Success by the Numbers: A Money-Man’s Guide to Opening the Next New Hot Spot (Second Edition), Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA.
 
Freedman, Paul
2012   Women in Restaurants in the Nineteenth-Century United States. Journal of Social History, Fall 2014, Vol. 48, No. 1 (Fall 2014), pp. 1-19.
 
Fremont, Maggie
2024   Restaurant Shows Ranked by Stressfulness. Vulture (website), June 27, 2024, www.vulture.com/article/stressful-restaurant-shows-ranked.html.
 
Fried, Stephen
2010   Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire that Civilized the Wild West. Bantam Books, New York, NY.
 
Lobel, Cindy
2010   “Out to Eat”: The Emergence and Evolution of the Restaurant in Nineteenth-Century New York City. Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 44, No. 2/3 (Summer/Autumn 2010), pp. 193-220.
 
Masin, Kim
2024   Restaurant Insider Stories: Squashing the Myth of Myths of Owning a Restaurant – Life in the Hospitality Industry. Self-Published (Kindle Edition).
 
Matyszak, Philip
2007   Rome on 5 Denarii a Day. Thames & Hudson, New York, NY.
 
Nybakken, Oscar E.
1946   The Moral Basis of Hospitium Privatum. The Classical Journal, Mar., 1946, No. 6, (Mar., 1946), pp. 248-253.
 
Poling-Kempes, Lesley
1991   The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West. Marlowe & Company, New York, NY.
 
Sasson, Remez
2024   Why People Love to Eat Out in Restaurants. Success Consciousness (website) (accessed December 21, 2024), www.successconsciousness. com/blog/happiness-fun/why-people-love-to-eat-out-in-restaurants/.
 
Sitwell, William
2020   The Restaurant: A 2,000-Year History of Dining Out. Diversion Books, New York, NY.
 
Young, Courtney
2023   10 Restaurant Shows That Will Have You Shouting ‘Yes, Chef!’ from the Rafters. Cosmopolitan, June 5, 2023, www.cosmopolitan.com/ entertainment/ tv/a44079555/restaurant-shows/.

The Two Humans try to remember exactly what it was they were going to say about memory.
Episode 69: Oh, Yes, I Remember It Well (I Think)
An Intro to Anthro with 2 Humans
Human Number One, John McCray, and Human Number Two, John Lehr, re-assess what it means to be human.
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Resources:
 
Cicero
90BC  Rhetorica ad Herennium. Kindle Edition.
 
Cleveland Clinic
2024   Alzheimer’s Disease. Cleveland Clinic (website), accessed December 1, 2024, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/9164-alzheimers-disease.
2024   Amygdala. Cleveland Clinic (website), accessed December 15, 2024, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24894-amygdala.
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