The craziness on American college campuses continues apace: in February babies at Barnard tried to take over the president’s office, yesterday some crazies at Columbia did the same in a library…during study period for finals. Because they hate Jews (taking over building is the logical thing to do when you hate Jews, right?), and they clearly don’t need to study.
These incidents are striking to me because at the same time that the Barnard Babies were doing their thing in February, my daughter and her husband – both currently university students, both having served reserve duty – had their first child. A real baby, who really can only eat, sleep, poop and cry. (In the interim she’s added smiling to her repertoire.) The Barnard Babies and Columbia Crazies seem to have a similarly limited skill set, even though in principle they should be able to do more. At a minimum, they should be studying. By comparison, this morning my daughter took her baby to class, while her husband took an exam and then headed off for more reserve duty, and this in between working jobs and applying for a mortgage. But the BBs and CCs choose to whine and cry and go on and on because terrorism is more important to them than building the world.
This prompted me to do a comparison. In 2024, the USPTO granted 2,646 patents that list at least one inventor from the following countries: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Comoros, Djibouti, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somali, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, UAE, and Yemen. That’s all the Arab countries, plus a few others. All Moslem. The collective population of these countries is almost 900 million. That’s fewer than 3 US patents for every million people.
In the same period, 2024, the USPTO granted 5,692 patents – more than twice as many – that list at least one Israeli inventor. But Israel has a population of only about 10 million – 90 times smaller than the combined populations of those Arab/Moslem countries. That’s nearly 570 US patents for every million Israelis, i.e. 190 times more US patents per capita than the entire Arab world.
There’s a good chance that when our baby grows up, she’ll be listed as an inventor on a US patent. That doesn’t seem to be the case for the Barnard Babies and Columbia Crazies.