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Episode 90 – Honking, Speeding, Crashing, and Parking: The Symbiotic and Symbolic Relationship between Humans and Cars.
It doesn’t matter if we take a little red Corvette, a hot rod Lincoln, or a little deuce coupe, it’s time to kick in for gas as The Two Humans explore the love affair between humans and cars! I call shotgun! Episode 90 – Honking, Speeding, Crashing, and Parking: The Symbiotic and Symbolic Relationship between Humans and Cars. 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 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: Alterman, Eddie 2017 The Car Was Not Invented in America, But We Invented What the Car Meant. Car and Driver, December 22, 2017, www.caranddriver.com/features/ a14499019/ the-car-was-not-invented-in-america-but-we-invented-what-the-car-meant-column/. Appleyard, Bryan 2022 The Car: The Rise and Fall of the Machine that Made the Modern World. Pegasus Books, New York, NY. Baudrillard, Jean 1988 America (trans. Chris Turner). Verso, London, UK. Both, Gode 2020 Defending Autonomous Driving. Keeping Autonomous Driving Alive: An Ethnography of Visions, Masculinity, and Fragility. Barbara Budrich Academic Press, Leverkusen, Germany. Brusowankin, Aryeh 2022 The Green Planet: What is Symbiosis? PBS.org (website), www.pbs.org/articles/what-is-symbiosis, (accessed November 8, 2026). Crawford, Matthew 2020 Why We Drive: On Freedom, Risk and Taking Back Control. Vintage, Dublin, Ireland. Cronon, William 2012 Introduction: Far More Than Just a Machine. Car Country: An Environmental History. University of Washington Press, Seattle, WA. Dictionary.com 2026 Symbiotic. Dictionary.com (website), www.dictionary.com/browse/symbiotic, (accessed November 2, 2026). EZ Air Park 2023 Driving Rules Around the World: A Global Guide to Road Etiquette. EZ Air Park (website), June 8, 2023, ezairpark.com/travel-tips/driving-rules-around-the-world/. Ganguly, Adit 2024 Front seat or back seat? Here’s what to choose for every car sex position. Cosmopolitan (India), July 2, 2024, www.cosmopolitan.in/relationships/ features/story/front-seat-or-back-seat-heres-what-to-choose-for-every-car-sex-position-1037926-2024-07-02. Gilmour, Paisley 2017 8 ways to have great car sex. Cosmopolitan, November 10, 2017, www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/love-sex/sex/a13515480/how-to-have-car-sex/. Glenberg, Arthur M. and Justin Hayes 2016 Contribution of Embodiment to Solving the Riddle of Infantile Amnesia. Frontiers in Psychology, January 25, 2016, mc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ articles/PMC4724724/pdf/fpsyg-07-00010.pdf. Grabar, Henry 2023 Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World. Penguin Books, New York, NY. Gray, Fergus 2023 The Diversity of Different Driving Cultures. Nationwide Vehicle Contracts, August 22, 2023, www.nationwidevehiclecontracts.co.uk/blog/the-diversity-of-different-driving-cultures. Hinck
- Sep 29, 20261h 26m
Episode 89 – To Be or Not To Be and Other Stupid Questions Interviewers Always Ask Hamlet
The Two Humans discuss whether ‘tis nobler to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or just say “screw it!” (Warning: This episode contains a frank and open discussion about suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, please call the National Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing 988.) Episode 89 – To Be or Not To Be and Other Stupid Questions Interviewers Always Ask Hamlet 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 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) 2026 Suicide Statistics. American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) (website), April 7, 2026, afsp.org/suicide-statistics/. Andrews, Paul W. and J. Anderson Thomson, Jr. 2009 Depression’s Evolutionary Roots. Scientific American, August 25, 2009, ww.scientificamerican.com/article/depressions-evolutionary/. Aubin, Henri-Jean, Ivan Berlin, and Charles Kornreich 2013 The Evolutionary Puzzle of Suicide. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2013, 10, pp. 6873-6886. Barbagli, Marzio 2009 Farewell to the World: A History of Suicide (trans. by Lucinda Byatt). Polity Press, Malden, MA. Baumeister, Roy F. 1990 Suicide as Escape from Self. Psychological Review, 1990, Vol. 97, No. 1, pp. 90-113. Bellows, Sierra 2012 The Evolution of Depression. Virginia Magazine, May 30, 2012, uvamagazine.org/articles/the_evolution_of_depression. Bering, Jesse 2010 Is killing yourself adaptive? That depends: An evolutionary theory of suicide. Scientific American (blog), October 11, 2010, www.scientificamerican.com/ blog/ bering-in-mind/is-killing-yourself-adaptive-that-depends-an-evolutionary-theory-about-suicide/. Britannica Editors 2026 Do Lemmings Really Commit Mass Suicide? Britannica (website), www.britannica.com/story/do-lemmings-really-commit-mass-suicide, (accessed September 27, 2026). Cleveland Clinic 2022 Frontal Lobe. The Cleveland Clinic (website), December 8, 2022, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/body/24501-frontal-lobe. Cobb, Richard 1978 Death in Paris. Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK. Colucci, Erminia and David Lester 2025 Suicide and Culture 2.0: Understanding the Context. Hogrefe Publishing, Newburyport, MA. Coyne, Jerry A. 2010 The Evolutionary Calculus of Depression. Psychiatric Times, May 26, 2010, www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/evolutionary-calculus-depression. Crichton-Miller, H. 1931 The Psychology of Suicide. The British Medical Journal, Aug. 8, 1931, Vol. 2, No. 3683 (Aug. 8, 1931), pp. 239-241. Culotta, Elizabeth 2019 Have humans developed natural defenses against suicide? Science, August 22, 2019, www.science.org/content/article/have-humans-developed-natural-defenses-against-suicide. Durkh
- Aug 13, 20261h 23m
Episode 88 – So…How Was Your Trip? UFOs and Making Small Talk with Space Aliens
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. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: Albright, Thomas D. 2023 On Eyewitness Reports of Extraterrestrial Life. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 241-256. Al-Khalili, Jim 2016 Introduction: Where Is Everybody? Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 1-10. Bader, Christopher D. 2003 Supernatural Support Groups: Who Are the UFO Abductees and Ritual-Abuse Survivors? Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Dec., 2003, Vol. 42, No. 4 (Dec., 2003), pp. 669-67. Becket, Stefan 2023 What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?. CBS News, September 14, 2023, www.cbsnews.com/news/what-are-uaps-unexplained-aerial-phenomenon-ufos-new-name/. Bialik, Carl and Taylor Orth 2025 Half of Americans believe aliens have visited Earth. YouGov (website), November 25, 2025, yougov.com/en-us/articles/53486-half-of-americans-believe-aliens-have-visited-earth. Bullard, Thomas E. 1989 UFO Abduction Reports: The Supernatural Kidnap Narrative Returns in Technological Guise. The Journal of American Folklore , Apr. - Jun., 1989, Vol. 102, No. 404 (Apr. - Jun., 1989), pp. 147-170. Bynum, Joyce 1993 Kidnapped by an Alien: Tales of UFO Abductions. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, Spring 1993, Vol. 50, No. 1 (Spring 1993), pp. 86-95. Campbell, Dallas 2016 Flying Saucers: A Brief History of Sightings and Conspiracies. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 35-46. Cleveland Clinic 2023 Highway Hypnosis Is Just Around the Bend. The Cleveland Clinic (website), June 9, 2023, health.clevelandclinic.org/highway-hypnosis. Consolmagno, Guy and Paul Mueller 2014 Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?...And Other Questions from the Astronomers’ In-Box at the Vatican Observatory. Image, New York, NY. Csicsery-Ronay, Jr., Istvan 2007 Some Things We Know about Aliens. The Yearbook of English Studies, 2007, Vol. 37, No. 2, Science Fiction (2007), pp. 1-23. Dartnell, Lewis 2016 (Un)welcome Visitors: Why Aliens Might Visit Us. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 25-34. Dean, Jodi 1998 Aliens in America: Conspiracy Cultures from Outerspace to Cyberspace. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. De Pinto, Jennifer, Anthony Salvanto, and Fred Backus 2026 CBS News poll finds most Americans believe extraterrestrial life exists – and some think it's already here. CBS News, June 11, 2026, www.cbsnews.com/news/americans-believe-extraterrestrial-life-exists-opinion-poll/. Dewan, William J. 2006 "A Saucerful of Secrets": An Interdisciplinary Analysis of UFO Experiences. The Journal of American Folklore, Spring, 2006, Vol. 119, No. 472 (Spring, 2006), pp. 184-202. Dick, Steven J. 1998 Life on Other Worlds: The 20th-Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. French, Christopher C. 2016 Abducted: The Psychology of Close Encounters with Extraterrestrials. Aliens: The World’s Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life (ed. Jim Al-Khalili). Picador, New York, NY, pp. 58-69. 2023 Hypnotic Regression and False Memories. The Reliability of UFO Witness Testimony (ed. V. J. Ballester-Olmos and Richard W. Heiden). Cooperativa Iniziative e Studi UPIAR, Turin, Italy, pp. 283-294. Gregersen, Erik 2026 Fermi Paradox. Britannica, July 22, 2026, www.britannica.com/ science/Fermi-paradox. Gutierrez, Lisa 2026 Fictionalized Kansas City at heart of Spielberg’s new
- Jun 24, 20261h 26m
Episode 87 -- Tall, Dark, and Handsome (with a Little More Hair on Top)
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. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: Akter, Farhana and Greg Williams 2016 The Evolution of Hair Transplant Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 431-446. Arnett, George 2014 Germany: the world's capital of penis enlargement. The Guardian, July 31, 2014, www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/jul/31/germany-the-worlds-capital-of-penis-enlargment-country. Blair, Lorrie and Maya Shalmon 2005 Cosmetic Surgery and the Cultural Construction of Beauty. Art Education, May 2005, Vol. 58, No. 3 (May, 2005), pp. 14-18. Britannica Editors 2026 Body Modifications and Mutilations. Britannica.com, www.britannica.com/ science/body-modifications-and-mutilations, (accessed June 11, 2026). Bukumal, Zain and Ash Mosahebi 2016 Body Contouring. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 409-430. Chen, Yuan, Yinuo Jiang, Xiao Li, Bin Wang, et al. 2025 Penile enhancement: A comprehensive and current perspective. Current Urology, March 28, 2025, 19(3), pp. 145–156. Cleveland Clinic 2023 Foreskin Restoration. The Cleveland Clinic (website), July 18, 2023, my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/25139-foreskin-restoration. Deslandes, Paul R. 2021 The Culture of Male Beauty in Britain. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL. Drury, Colin 2018 ‘I wanted a truncheon in my pants’: the rise of the penis extension. The Guardian, September 22, 2018, www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/ sep/22/penis-extension-wanted-truncheon-in-pants-rise. Duguid, Michelle M. and Jack A. Goncalo 2012 Living Large: The Powerful Overestimate Their Own Height. Psychological Science, January 2012, Vol. 23, No. 1 (January 2012), pp. 36-40. Gangestad, Steven W. and Glenn J. Scheyd 2005 The Evolution of Human Physical Attractiveness. Annual Review of Anthropology, 2005, Vol. 34 (2005), pp. 523-548. Gilman, Sander L. 1999 Making the Body Beautiful: A Cultural History of Aesthetic Surgery. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ. Honigman, Roberta J., Katharine A. Phillips, and David J. Castle 2004 A Review of Psychological Outcomes for Patients Seeking Cosmetic Surgery. Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, April 1, 2004, 113(4), pp. 1229-1237. Kanapathy, Muholan and Niall Kirkpatrick 2016 Facial Aesthetic Surgery. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 346-373. Korhonen, Anu 2010 Strange Things Out of Hair: Baldness and Masculinity in Early Modern England. The Sixteenth Century Journal, Summer 2010, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 371-391. Kottak, Conrad Phillip 2011 Cultural Anthropology: Appreciating Cultural Diversity (Fourteenth Edition), McGraw-Hill, New York, NY. Lee, Bruce Y. 2026 ‘Bone Smashing’ TikTok Trend, Here Are Dangers Of Hammering Your Face. Minded by Science, March 1, 2026, bruceylee.substack.com/p/bone-smashing-tiktok-trend-here-are. 2026 What Is Mogging? Psychology Today, March 5, 2026, www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/a-funny-bone-to-pick/202603/what-is-mogging. Leung, Billy Ching, Kimberly Lau, and Hugo Henderson 2016 Blepharoplasty – Special Focus on Asian Blepharoplasty. Textbook of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (ed. Deepak M. Kalaskar, Peter E. Butler and Shadi Ghali). UCL Press, London, UK, pp. 374-386. Lincoln, Margarette 2024 Perfection: 400 Years of Women’s Quest for Beauty. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. Mangweth, B., H.G. P
- May 5, 20261h 34m
Episode 86 – How Much Is That Degas in the Window? The One with the Spurious Tale.
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 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: Aikman, Ian and Rachel Hagen 2025 Everything We Know about the Louvre Jewelry Heist. BBC, October 20, 2025, www.bbc.com/news/articles/cg7nrlkg0zxo. Alford, Kenneth D. 2000 Nazi Plunder: Great Treasure Stories of World War II. Da Capo Press, Cambridge, MA. Artbusiness.com 2026 Art Provenance: What It Is and How to Verify It. Artbusiness.com (website), www.artbusiness.com/provwarn.html (accessed March 22, 2026). Barelli, John and Zachary Schisgal 2019 Stealing the Show: A History of Art and Crime in Six Thefts. Lyons Press, Guilford, CT. Borodkin, Lisa J. 1995 The Economics of Antiquities Looting and a Proposed Legal Alternative. Columbia Law Review, Mar., 1995, Vol. 95, No. 2 (Mar., 1995), pp. 377-417. Brower II, Charles H. 2005 Republic of Austria v. Altmann. The American Journal of International Law, Jan., 2005, Vol. 99, No. 1 (Jan., 2005), pp. 236-242. Charney, Noah 2018 The Museum of Lost Art. Phaedon Press Limited, London, UK. 2024 The Thefts of the Mona Lisa: The Complete Story of the World’s Most Famous Artwork. Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD. Collins, Donald E. and Herbert P. Rothfeder 1983 The Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg and the Looting of Jewish and Masonic Libraries during World War II. The Journal of Library History (1974-1987), Winter, 1983, Vol. 18, No. 1 (Winter, 1983), pp. 21-36. Davies, Caroline 2025 Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace. The Guardian, June 13, 2025, www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/13/two-men-jailed-over-theft-of-gold-toilet-from-blenheim-palace. DeMott, Deborah A. 2012 Artful Good Faith: An Essay on Law, Custom, and Intermediaries in Art Markets. Duke Law Journal, December 2012, Vol. 62, No. 3, Special Symposium Issue Custom and Law (December 2012), pp. 607-643. Evans, Laura 2024 The Atlas of Art Crime: Thefts, Vandalism, and Forgeries. Prestel, Munich, Germany. Evans, Richard J. 2011 Art in the Time of War. The National Interest, May/June 2011, No. 113 (May/June 2011), pp. 16-26. Gaudenzi, Bianca and Astrid Swenson 2017 Looted Art and Restitution in the Twentieth Century—Towards a Global Perspective. Journal of Contemporary History, July 2017, Vol. 52, No. 3 (July 2017), pp. 491-518. Gerstenblith, Patty 2008 Art, Cultural Heritage, and the Law (Second Edition). Carolina Academic Press, Durham, NC. Gerstenblith, Patty and Lucille Roussin 2007 International Cultural Property. The International Lawyer, SUMMER 2007, Vol. 41, No. 2, International Legal Developments in Review: 2006 (SUMMER 2007), pp. 613-628. Givens, Seth A. 2014 Liberating the Germans: The US Army and Looting in Germany during the Second World War. War in History, January 2014, Vol. 21, No. 1 (January 2014), pp. 33-54. Hendricks, Ashley Domingo 2022 Our Obsession with Art Heists. JSTOR Daily, August 19, 2022, daily.jstor.org/our-obsession-with-art-heists/. Henley, Jon 2025 Prosecutor has ‘small hope’ of recovering Louvre jewels thanks to gear left by thieves. The Guardian, October 24, 2025, www.theguardian.com/world/ 2025/oct/24/louvre-jewels-recovery-dna-fingerprints. 2025 Four More People Arrested in Connection with Louvre Heist. The Guardian, November 25, 2025, www.theguardian.com/world/2025/nov/25/more-people-arrested-louvre-heist. Houpt, Simon 2006 Museum of the Missing: A History of Art Theft. Sterling Publishing Co., Inc., New York, NY. Interpol 2025 Louvre Museum theft: Stolen jewels
- Mar 3, 20261h 22m
Episode 85: Is That a Baguette in Your Pocket or Are You Just a Happy Francophile?
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. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: 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. Aristides 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/. Deloria, Philip J. 1998 Playing Indian. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT. Dery, Mark 2013 England My England: Anglophilia Explained. Thought Catalog, Brooklyn, NY. Dewey, Dan P. 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. Everett, Dion 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). Ferraro, Gary and Susan Andreatta 2012 Cultural Anthropology: An Applied Perspective. Wadsworth, Cengage Learning, Belmont, CA. Fri
- Jan 20, 20261h 21m
Episode 84: Give Your Hands a Hand: A Slow Clap for an Underappreciated Appendage.
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. Website: http://www.intro2anthro.podbean.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093893313542 IG: @introtoanthrowith2humans Patreon: https://patreon.com/AnIntrotoAnthrowithTwoHumans Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@introtoanthrowith2humans Merch: www.cafepress.com/shop/TheCaveShoppe/products?designId=13619501 Resources: 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. Bridgman, George B. 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. Helvetius, Claude Adrien 1810 De l’Esprit or, Essays on the Mind and Its Several Faculties (translated from the
- Dec 9, 20251h 27m
Episode 83: Obedience and Authority: From Shock the Monkey to Jailhouse Rock
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. 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: 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. Eckman, Bruce K. 1977 Research: Stanley Milgram’s “Obedience” Studies. ETC: A Review of General Semantics, March 1977, Vol. 34, No. 1 (March 1977), pp. 88-99. Goldhagen, Daniel Jonah 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. Harvard University Department of Psychology 2025 Stanley Milgram (1933-1984). Harvard University (website), psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/stanley-milgram, (accessed November 30, 2025). Helm, Charles and Mario Morelli 1979 Stanley Milgram and the Obedience Experiment: Authority, Legitimacy, and Human Action. Political Theory, Aug., 1979, No. 3 (Aug., 1979), pp. 321-345. Krueger, Joachim I. 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. Milgrim, Stanley 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
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