A Rabbi is found dead in a hotel room, stabbed in the chest. The room is filled with Kabbalah texts and a single page in an typewriter that reads “The first letter of the name has been written.” The celebrated detective and “reasoning machine” Erik Lönnrot suspects a rabbinical explanation but is he seeing patterns that may not be there? David and Tamler get out their pipes, magnifying glasses, and deerstalker hats to unravel another Borges mystery: “Death and the Compass.” Plus a new study on why men make errors about whether women are flirting with them, the latest in our series on studies that employ erotic fiction. Links: <a href= "https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10508-023-02798-x">A Dress Is Not a Yes: Towards an Indirect Mouse-Tracking Measure of Men’s Overreliance on Global Cues in the Context of Sexual Flirting</a> <a href= "https://www.psypost.org/pinpointing-the-psychological-factors-linked-to-mens-misjudgments-of-womens-sexual-interest/"> Pinpointing the psychological factors linked to men's misjudgments of women's sexual interest</a> <a href= "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_and_the_Compass">Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges</a> [wikipedia.org]

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Episode 282: Fearful Symmetry (Borges' "Death and the Compass")

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