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In the last chapter of his brilliant book “Range,” David Epstein profiled Arturo Casadevall, MD, PhD, and the chair of molecular microbiology and immunology at Johns Hopkins. It’s a book about the people and conditions that lead to extraordinary performance, and it’s coming to life right now: Dr. Casadevall has kicked off a major consortium of labs targeting a short-term COVID-19 therapy, made from the plasma of recovered COVID-19 patients, with the potential to be deployed quickly. David joined us at the top of the show to explain.And then (talk about “range”), we welcomed Noah Galuten, a remarkable chef who guided the Abbotts in making killer tacos with the stuff we happen to have in our quarantine-time fridge.Here’s the archived video: This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. For now: subscriptions are free!Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with science writer and athlete Christie Aschwanden. She joined us on BRING IT IN (new name!) to talk about her book, “Good To Go: What the Athlete in All of Us Can Learn from the Strange Science of Recovery.” Her dogged research into performance applies as a must-read lesson for staying healthy in times of high stress. The same techniques apply! Her calm, lucid insight is also calming while on lockdown. David was moved enough that he’s instructing all of his basketball players to listen to this very podcast above. Chrisite writes for Elemental, co-hosts Emerging Form—a podcast about the creative process. She is the former lead science writer at FiveThirtyEight and a contributor at the New York Times, Washington Post, and Slate.Below is the archived video in which Christie makes a case for training the minimum amount to get the desired effect and, if you find it relaxing, drinking a little wine or a beer now and again. UPDATE: Christie’s just-published Elemental article on exercising during a coronavirus outbreak.Join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET, and bring your questions! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. For now: subscriptions are free!Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Ethan Sherwood Strauss of The Athletic about his upcoming book “The Victory Machine.”  Below is the archived video which almost included Ethan’s cute son. Join us tomorrow and every day this week at 11 a.m. ET, and bring your questions! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. For now: subscriptions are free!Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Ben Weber. He’s an actor best known for his roles in Sex and the City, Everwood, and Coach Carter. He also happens to have been Henry’s NYU college roommate. The theme: basketball as relief from anxiety. Ben, as it happens, is working on a live performance on this theme. He grew up with a difficult mom—the dunk hoop up the street was the solution. He’d imagine he was playing with charters from fiction, the SuperSonics, or celebrities. (When I first heard the term “fantasy basketball,” he says, he thought this was what they were talking about.) Basketball as stress relief is a pattern he carried with him to Tompkins Square Park in the 90s, to his work habits today—and now he sees his son doing the same thing in the alley outside their L.A. garage. Also, from NBA players battling as themselves on NBA 2K, to an all-quarantine L.A. Finals, we have some ideas about some products the NBA could really offer, in lieu of full games, in a pandemic. And here’s the archived video. Join us tomorrow and every day this week at 11 a.m. ET, and bring your questions! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

TrueHoop subscribers are welcome to join us every weekday at 11 a.m. ET for a TrueHoop TV Live video chat. And for the moment, subscriptions are free!Today Henry Abbott and David Thorpe spoke with Wall Street Journal’s Ben Cohen, author of “The Hot Hand.” Then there was a bit of a Stephen Curry lovefest.And here’s the archived video. Join us tomorrow and every day this week at 11 a.m. ET, and bring your questions! This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the untold story of how ice baths moved from Moscow to the NBA.It was 1986. Geneva, Switzerland. Worried that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were close to World War III, Ronald Reagan announced a giant cultural exchange. Journalists, professors, and sports teams would board planes to make friends and, hopefully, bring peace. As a result, American Rich Dalatri, weeks from starting his new job as the first strength and conditioning coach in NBA history, joined a group of American coaches visiting Moscow’s secretive Institute of Sport. That’s where Dalatri slipped away from his handlers and made friends with cutting edge Russian coaches and athletes. They offered him innovative workouts, banned substances, and … a plunge into water so cold he thought it might kill him.Next thing you know, Dalatri was back in New Jersey trying to convince one of the strongest 6-foot-11 men of all time—Darryl Dawkins—to climb into a garbage can full of frigid ice water. A few decades later, almost every NBA player gets in cold tubs regularly. This is the story of how ice baths came to the NBA.It’s a sample of the TrueHoop Podcast, one of our most exciting projects, which is in development. We are thrilled to share it with you. You can hear another sample here.Image © Sergey Pesterev / Wikimedia Commons This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.truehoop.com/subscribe Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices