Uploaded April 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Oxford Mathematician Dr Tom Crawford calculates how many ping-pong balls it would take to raise the Titanic. Full video here: youtu.be/54EmUfF1-0c

Filmed for @duolingo DuoCon 2022 - a free global event at the intersection of language, learning, and technology: duolingo.com/duocon

Production by West Bound Filmworks
Katy Romdall - Executive Producer
Susan Kirsch - Creative Director
Tom Crawford - Writer, Video Co-Director, Researcher
Ryan Claypool - Producer and Video Co-Director
Ilaria Ghattas - Program Manager
Matt Andrews - Aerials and Camera Operator
Leo Brake & Juanru Zhao - Production Assistants

Dr Tom Crawford is an Early-Career Teaching and Outreach Fellow in Mathematics at St Edmund Hall, at the University of Oxford: seh.ox.ac.uk/people/tom-crawford

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