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Chris Bunting: Aggression - book chapter
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Aggression - book chapter. Chris Bunting, Times Higher Education Supplement, April 2001. Subsequently reproduced in "Big Questions in Science" (Jonathan Cape, Hardback, 2002). A solitary "matador" and a half-crazed bull replayed their parts in an old, violent ritual in a sun soaked arena in southern Spain. It was the summer of 1964 but film of the incident is still shown in lecture halls today. It was the hot, high summer of scientists' belief in their ability to not only to explain but to intervene in t...
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Chris Bunting: Tongue twisters
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Chris Bunting, Times Education Supplement, Teacher magazine, March 2003. IT was the most disastrous translation mistake in history: a simple language error that may have helped kill 15 million people. A secret set of instructions sent from Tokyo to the Japanese ambassador about how to handle the peace plan was picked up by American code-breakers and a translation of the instructions was on the desk of Secretary of State Cordell Hull days before the Japanese ambassador made his presentation. Sadly, it was...
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Chris Bunting: Looking for well read men in blue
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Looking for well read men in blue. Chris Bunting. Times Higher Education Supplement, August 2001. A collector of stereotypes would be disappointed in the University of Central Lancashire academic. A serving policeman until last year, he exudes the down-to-earth, professional affability of an experienced officer. Answers to questions are brief and to the point. Forde believes they have staged evidence to fit their hypothesis. "I think the evidence points to a suicide. Lindow Man has also got a wou...His w...
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Chris Bunting: Big Questions in History
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Big Questions in History. I contributed two articles (one on revolutions and one on cultural "golden ages") to Big Questions in History. Which was published in hardback by Jonathan Cape in June 2005 and in paperback by Vintage a year later. Converted to Blogger Beta by Blogcrowds. No part of the content or the blog may be reproduced without prior written permission.
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Chris Bunting: What a bit of dignity teaches us
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What a bit of dignity teaches us. Chris Bunting, Times Higher Education Supplement, November 2000. EVERY afternoon, Albie Sachs listened from solitary confinement in Wynberg, South Africa, to boys as young as eight being beaten by groups of laughing policemen. The screaming was relentless and the beatings so hard that he saw splinters of cane littering the passageway when he was allowed out for exercise afterwards. Justice Sachs has seen more sides of the law than most supreme court judges. He worked...
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Chris Bunting: There's more to mud than meets the eye
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There's more to mud than meets the eye. Chris Bunting, Times Higher Education Supplement, October 2002. When Nick Branch is on his favourite subject, you half expect him to throw up his arms and deliver, in his full-throated Welsh tenor voice, a rousing chorus of: "Mud, Mud, Glorious Mud! There's nothing quite like it for cooling the blood. So, follow me, follow, down to the hollow, And there let us wallow in glorious mud.". Only the torso was found, so there is little evidence. The work that we have...
