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Bring It In: David Epstein, Noah Galuten

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 joine...

Mar 23, 2020•1 hr 6 min

Bring It In: Christie Aschwanden

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 st...

Mar 20, 2020•53 min

TrueHoop TV Live: March 19, 2020

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 subscribe...

Mar 19, 2020•55 min

TrueHoop TV Live: March 18, 2020

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 ...

Mar 18, 2020•56 min

TrueHoop TV Live: March 17, 2020

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 o...

Mar 17, 2020•54 min

TrueHoop Podcast: The cold war in a tub

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 v...

Feb 11, 2020•33 min

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