On: The Genius in My Basement (2011)

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Did anyone here get to experience one of Norton's lectures? It seems "Cambridge failed to renew his contract... citing his eccentric lecturing style which they thought deterred students," so I am curious what they might have been like

https://www.thejc.com/news/obituaries/obituary-simon-norton-...

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Luckily for us, one of his most important lectures was recorded and uploaded to youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sO0iyzYUTgo

Make sure you watch all of it, there's some bombshells in there.

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Thank you. (For other readers, this is an interview about public transport issues)

It sounds like he had a relatively severe stutter. I hope the university didn't fail to renew his contract on that account.