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Summary of PubInvCon 2021: Work to Be Done

On January 9, 2021, Public Invention hosted our virtual “year in review” conference titled PubInvCon 2021: Work To Be Done. The conference was a coming together of dedicated inventors, volunteers, scientists, students, and more interested in humanitarian inventing “in the public, for the public.” We discussed our successes of 2020 and outlined the hard work […]

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A Summary of Activity by Public Invention Supported by Protocol Labs

Protocols Labs has been a major support for organizations such as Public Invention which have been addressing the most extraordinary health crisis of this century: the COVID-19 pandemic. Public Invention co-hosted free virtual mini-cons VentCon 2020 and VentConQA, attended by 115 and 50 people respectively (slides and videos at those links). These events drew together

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The Story of a Public, Cooperative Mathathon

A hexagonal-centered toroidal 1.053-bounded regular tetrahedral simplex chain, discovered at the Mathathon by Nathan Gilbert. Two weekends ago, something rare happened. Thirteen people, sharing only a common interest in math, joined together from India, the Middle-East, England, Canada and the United States to solve real math problems. As might be expected, most of them dropped

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