Recently in the sister blog: Brussels sprouts, ugly graphs, and switched at birth

1. Congress vs. Nickelback: The real action is in the cross tabs: Conservatives are mean, liberals are big babies, and, if supporting an STD is what it takes to be a political moderate, I don’t want to be one.

2. How 2012 stacks up: The worst graph on record?: OK, not actually worse than this one.

3. Boys will be boys; cows will be cows: Children’s essentialist reasoning about gender categories and animal species.