Apr 16, 2024
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:
Pinpointing the psychological factors linked to men's misjudgments of women's sexual interest
Death and the Compass by Jorge Luis Borges [wikipedia.org]