“Does disability and disease dominate our home? In a word, yes.” But…

John Knight responds to NPR’s interview with Karl Greenfeld.

They offer very different perspectives on the effect of disability on a household.

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What’s the last interesting (though perhaps trivial) thing you’ve learned?

This morning I discovered that the earliest plural of dwarf is dwarfs.

Dwarves was popularized by Tolkien.

What have you learned recently?

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No, son, I won’t read you that book, but I can use it to teach you a new word: inane.

I won’t read Orison Scooby-Doo.

My mom wouldn’t read us Curious George.

What books are too annoying to read to your kids?

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Related:

22 of our favorite picture books
Using kids books to teach literature

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Don’t judge something's value by whether or not you can live without it.

When you take a break from something and you don’t miss it, that doesn’t necessarily mean it’s not valuable in your life.

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The real curve in a curve ball is an illusion (interesting even if you don’t like baseball)

When a curve ball “breaks,” it’s an optical illusion created by the ball passing into the batter’s peripheral vision.

See an illustration.

(via Barnabas Piper)

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