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Spasfon: What Happens When Familiarity Outruns Evidence?

September 12, 2026

I have taken Spasfon and felt nothing. Many people around me keep taking it. The evidence behind one of France's most familiar medicines is stranger than either experience.

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Largactil: What Happens After a Drug Appears to Work?

August 26, 2026

Chlorpromazine transformed psychiatry before scientists understood why it worked. Its story is fascinating, and it still has things to teach us in the era of AI for drug discovery.

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Sur l'éducation au Bénin, (1/2).

August 19, 2016

Une analyse des défis du système éducatif béninois, de la formation des enseignants aux résultats décevants du baccalauréat.

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SuffixTreeJS

February 20, 2016

An interactive generalized suffix tree viewer built with Ukkonen's algorithm and D3.js.

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