Efficiency -- Making America Great Again -- September 8, 2018

From the hayride: 600 days.

From gateway pundit. 600 days.

From the cheatsheet: vacation time. It appears Trump is taking twice the number of vacation days, playing twice as much golf as his predecessor and still accomplishing four times as much for the American people.

This is a most interesting graph. Look at the US debt to GDP ratio.

Unemployment at record lows or near record lows: the overall unemployment rate; African-American unemployment rate; Hispanic unemployment rate.

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Dinosaurs and Color

This may just be the coolest thing I learned all week: how scientists are figuring out how to determine the color of dinosaurs. This is absolutely fascinating. I first read about it in: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, Steve Brusatte, 2018.

A very, very clever young scientist figured it out.

I think it raises a lot of metaphysical questions. Seriously.

Here's how scientists are figuring out the colors of dinosaurs:

• from National Geographic, 2010
• from Popular Science, 2017