| Barefoot Epidemiologist | ||||||||||||||
| How an amateur could, in two weeks, do a good estimation of the size of a city's drug-abusing population. | ||||||||||||||
| Beggar's Brass Bowl | ||||||||||||||
| A proposal to register beggars and encourage them to be "street concierges" in exchange for alms and other generosity. | ||||||||||||||
| The Best of Times, the Worst of Times | ||||||||||||||
| My personal choices for the two most hopeful, and the two most troubling, potential directions for the AIDS epidemic in the 2000-2010 decade. | ||||||||||||||
| Big HIV Spread Among Young Gays | ||||||||||||||
| Back-calculation from AIDS surveillance data suggests that lots of young gay men are getting infected. | ||||||||||||||
| Blood on Their Hands: The Judgment of History | ||||||||||||||
| Reflections on the only punishment ever likely to be meted out to ruling-class policymakers whose decisions cost thousands of lives or billions of dollars. | ||||||||||||||
| Boar's Head Carol | ||||||||||||||
| A homoerotic extra verse for the traditional Oxford Christmas carol. | ||||||||||||||
| Boredom: A Safe, Legal Way to Achieve Altered States of Consciousness | ||||||||||||||
| My revenge for all the tedious meetings I've had to endure in my academic and professional life. | ||||||||||||||
| A Brief History of the After Sobriety Movement | ||||||||||||||
| Speculation upon a world where "sobriety" is a valuable commodity on the free market, exchangeable for "life therapy" vouchers. | ||||||||||||||
| The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Sugar | ||||||||||||||
| An imaginary press release in 2013, when America's three big legal drugs finally become taxed in proportion to the damages they do. | ||||||||||||||
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