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Vitamin Drips aren’t just expensive, they’re mostly useless — a pharmacokinetics primer

As fads go, vitamin drips have been a surprisingly enduring one, having grown into a sizable (and enormously profitable) business globally…

Sep 10

Vitamin Drips aren’t just expensive, they’re mostly useless — a pharmacokinetics primer

Sep 10

Runners: 3 mistakes you’re making in your interval sessions

Interval sessions are a key part of most good training programs — they build the strength and power you need for racing, without the…

Jul 9

Runners: 3 mistakes you’re making in your interval sessions

Jul 9

Why Nike’s VaporFly 4% should have been called the VaporFly Unleaded, and how dodgy science ruined…

There is a joke that does the rounds every time there is a cycle of fuel price hikes, along the lines of “with the new fuel price it’s…

May 15, 2023

Why Nike’s VaporFly 4% should have been called the VaporFly Unleaded, and how dodgy science ruined…

May 15, 2023

A gamer’s guide to difficulty levels on Twitter

by Dr NT Stacey

Jan 27, 2022

Jan 27, 2022

Is South Africa’s problem vaccine hesitancy, or is it simple vaccine procrastination?

A series of surveys have all confirmed that the majority of South Africans are pro-vaccine and, on paper at least, willing and eager to go…

Jan 6, 2022

Jan 6, 2022

How long will it take before we find out how bad Omicron is?

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Nov 29, 2021

How long will it take before we find out how bad Omicron is?

Nov 29, 2021

How should South Africa combat Omicron in the days to come?

The emergence of the Omicron variant has concerning implications for South Africa and, indeed, the world. In the last two weeks, South…

Nov 28, 2021

Nov 28, 2021

How did South Africa’s genomic surveillance miss the Nu variant until was too late?

On the 23rd of November, South Africa sequenced several samples of a new COVID-19 variant, labeled as B.1.1.529 and, around the same time…

Nov 26, 2021

How did South Africa’s genomic surveillance miss the Nu variant until was too late?

Nov 26, 2021

Comrades marathon 2022 date: how bad will the heat be?

The Comrades marathon is a staple of South Africa’s sporting and cultural life, and the event’s cancellation in 2020 and 2021 was a great…

Nov 24, 2021

Nov 24, 2021

A brief history of COVID stuff I have been shouted at for, and how it panned out

I won’t be publicizing this article much, because it is essentially a bit of a personal whinge and therefore not particularly deserving of…

Nov 10, 2021

Nov 10, 2021

Neil Thomas Stacey

Neil Thomas Stacey

When I was a kid I figured I'd be a scientist when I grew up. Now I'm a scientist and I have no idea what I'll be when I grow up.

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