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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.

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.

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