An amazing life:

Benoit Mandelbrot, who died on October 14 aged 85, was largely responsible for developing the discipline of fractal geometry – the study of rough or fragmented geometric shapes or processes that have similar properties at all levels of magnification or across all times.

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Steve Benen:

After yet another week of GOP nonsense, it’s time for kittens and a Roomba.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMIZtTZ_bQY

Of all the private homes I’ve seen that were designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, this is the one I’d most like to reproduce and live in. Built for a doctor and his nurse wife in 1950, the house is located in Manchester, New Hampshire. It’s owned by the Currier Museum of Art. I saw the house in the early spring of 2000. The above photo is of the back – for some reason I didn’t take a full-length of the front.

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A program made before I was born, and climate change was an issue even then … remember seeing this, and Our Mr. Sun, in elementary school.

Why is Crain’s sponsoring an appearance by this racist asshole?

Titanic actress Gloria Stuart has passed away at the age of 100. The Washington Post notes that Gloria, who was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, is the oldest actress to ever be nominated for an Academy Award – Gloria got an Oscar nod for her portrayal of “Old Rose” in 1997’s Titanic.

“When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed,” Gloria wrote in her memoir, I Just Kept Hoping. “I didn’t realize it would take so long.” [Just Jared]