Is it her genes? Oldest known person turns 115 on Sunday Maybe it was a lifetime of chores on the family farm that accounts for Edna Parker's long life. Or maybe just good genes explain why the world's oldest known person will turn 115 on Sunday, defying staggering odds. MIT prof Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dies at 90 Edward Lorenz, the father of chaos theory, died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., Wednesday. He was 90.
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