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Neil Thomas Stacey

Neil Thomas Stacey

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…

4 min readMay 15, 2023

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

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Neil Thomas Stacey

A gamer’s guide to difficulty levels on Twitter

by Dr NT Stacey

4 min readJan 27, 2022

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Neil Thomas Stacey

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…

3 min readJan 6, 2022

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Neil Thomas Stacey

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

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6 min readNov 29, 2021

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

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Neil Thomas Stacey

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…

4 min readNov 28, 2021

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Neil Thomas Stacey

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…

3 min readNov 26, 2021

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

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Neil Thomas Stacey

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…

10 min readNov 24, 2021

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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…

14 min readNov 10, 2021

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Explainer: thermo-economic comparison of home loadshedding solutions.

Market price is temporary. Thermodynamics is eternal.

7 min readOct 29, 2021

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You should be angry about vaccine inequity. But who should you be angry at?

One of the core assumptions behind free-market capitalism is that it is efficient at allocating resources where they will have the most…

9 min readAug 19, 2021

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You should be angry about vaccine inequity. But who should you be angry at?

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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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