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May 12, 2012: the amazing partnership between soldier and military working dog, unusual advice on finding a really great restaurant, The Monroe Institute - get away from it all and (perhaps) have an out-of-body experience, and Defense Anthropologist turns spy novelist.
Deployed to Iraq's Triangle of Death in 2004, Sergeant Mike Dowling and his military dog Rex were part of the first Marine Corps K9 team sent to the front lines of combat since Vietnam. Sergeant Dowling led Rex into continual danger to sniff out weapons caches, suicide bombers and IEDs, the biggest threats to combat forces and civilians. On the deadliest streets of Iraq, they formed an unbreakable partnership and bond, where each depended on the other for survival. Mike Dowling recounts their story in Sergeant Rex: The Unbreakable Bond Between a Marine and His Military Working Dog.
Tyler Cowen is one of the most influential economists of the decade - as anointed by Economist Magazine - AND a serious foodie. In addition to being a Professor of Economics at George Mason University, he writes a very popular food blog called Tyler Cowen's Ethnic Dining Guide with an eye for a good restaurant AND a good deal. In his latest book An Economist Gets Lunch: New Rules for the Everyday Foodie, Tyler Cowen applies his unique economic approach to the world of everyday foodies and offers some unusual advice on finding a really great restaurant.
Will our spirit live on after our physical bodies leave this earth? There is a program at the Monroe Institute in Farber, Virginia, which explores this question. It encourages participants to explore areas of consciousness not normally available in the waking state, mostly through out-of-body experiences. Over the past 3 decades, thirty thousand people have participated in the program, including officers in the US Military, and most come away changed in some way. Teresa Vargas, a Washington Post reporter, recently participated in the program and chronicled her experiences in a cover story in the Washington Post Magazine.
Alexandra Hamlet has parlayed her life experiences and spun a good read. Her professional career as a cultural and defense anthropologist working with top secret U.S. intelligence agencies has given her enough intrigue to write The Right Guard, the first in a series of intelligence and spy novels. In addition, Alexandra Hamlet is a visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a consultant on irregular warfare.
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