of why it would be almost impossible to document their networks. Most of the point after all is that ordinary people can't participate. Luckily Gilad is a genius computer scientist and I spend a lot of time reading celebrity magazines. Between the two of us we figured out a way to access celebrity networks and the exclusiveness of their social lives without asking them a single survey question or trying to talk to Paris Hilton.
and then defining what is down there in that land mass. It's Gila monsters and firemen and maybe in an odd VW Bug. And then you get a learned paper in Monaco about the nature of this new land.
But I did sun path to know exactly where the sun was going to be and I'd hung some silks up on the windows so if it came out I would be able Being attacked by Gila monsters.
hostile tribes farther West. And then by the 1870s, 1880s, Mexican Americans and Anglo Americans started moving into the Pima territory and they overhunted the nearby mountains. They diverted the Gila River water to irrigate their own fields, and the Pima went into what they called the Years of Famine, which lasted for 20 or 30 years. And by 1902, when Frank Rosso, a Harvard anthropologist came to live with the Pima and wrote the Seminole
for alcohol use disorder. The winding path of GLP-1s from Gila monster peptide to diabetes medication to obesity drug to potential addiction treatment -- it is a story of hope.
So to return to the biomimicry examples I presented at the beginning, I'll reveal the what that inspired them. So a type 2 diabetes medication was inspired by the Gila monster that lives in the Sonoran desert. Cement bricks that take much less CO2 than conventional cement to create were inspired by hard coral.
And he stopped off in New Mexico. He always liked to hang out in the Gila wilderness wherever possible, because that's where Geronimo had run free. And it was a kind of spiritual home for Micah.
it was hard to turn it into a drug. The big break didn't come until years later, when a scientist who was studying Gila monsters, of all things, found that the lizard's venom contained a similar peptide, and that peptide could hang around for hours.
If we could infiltrate this exclusive world could it tell us something more genuinely about how people become stars? A few years back my Ben Gurion University colleague, Gilad Ravid and I were determined to figure this out. We believe that celebrity status can partially be explained through specific networks of which celebrities are a part. But after establishing that theory we ran into a bit of a basic non-starter. How does one get into a net, a celebrity network
So, here we have a photo. This young woman, or middle-aged woman, was known as 'Fat Louisa'. This photo was taken in 1902. And Fat Louisa was a Pima Indian. And the Pima live on the Gila River reservation. Now, it's the Gila River reservation, south of Phoenix, Arizona. What's little-known about the Pima is today, they are the poster children for obesity and diabetes in the United States cause they have, conceivably, the highest risk of any population.
Keep-- continue to put the work in, the time in, and everything will come into fruition. For sure. So outside of the NBA, you were able to play for Gilas Pilipinas in the 2018 Asian Games for a short period of time. What was that experience like for you in terms of just being in the Philippines and being surrounded by the people and some of your roots?
Get rid of them. And most Muslims are followers of one of these great mystics, whether it's Rumi of the Mevlana order, whether it's the Qadirs, Abdul Qadir Gilani of Baghdad,
So it's always very gratifying, but it's always unexpected as well. Cool. Are there any personal favorite characters you'd like to see return to canon from the EU, such as Mara Jade, Talon Karrde, Gilad Pellaeon, et cetera? Yup, all of them.
In another case of Aceh in Indonesia, where the guerrilla forces have been fighting for 30 years, the GAM. behind that. There have been negotiations with Hamas, Israel, and the United States on a ceasefire and on the release of Gilad Shalit.
What's little-known about the Pima is today, they are the poster children for obesity and diabetes in the United States cause they have, conceivably, the highest risk of any population. In the 17th, 18th, 19th Century, they were the most affluent Native American tribe. They were hunters and gatherers. They hunted in the nearby mountains. They fished in the Gila River. They raised sheep--not sheep--cattle, pigs. They had warehouses full of food available