David and Tamler crawl up a riverbank, kiss the mud, and dream a discussion of Borges’ “The Circular Ruins.” We sort through various interpretations and allusions, the story as a metaphor for artistic creation, gnostic cosmology, solipsism, eternal recursion, and the unstable boundary between reality and illusion. How does Borges fit all of this and much more in a 5 page story? Plus, Scientific American endorses Kamala Harris – is that a big deal? We look at a study purporting to show that Nature’s Biden endorsement eroded trust in science among Trump supporters. <a href= "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-023-01537-5.pdf">Political endorsement by Nature and trust in scientific expertise during COVID-19</a> [nature.com] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Circular_Ruins">The Circular Ruins by Jorge Luis Borges</a> [wikipedia.org]

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