Eye Level Pasadena

Last week Caltech harvested its campus olives and sent them off to be pressed into olive oil.

Olive harvesting

Trees in the lineup

More links:

• Caltech Olive Harvest Festival website
• Cook and Nifty Wench: Olive Harvest
• Tableau Vivante: EVENT: CalTech Olive Harvest Redux…phew

Under the lily pads

Frog in hiding

Growing in a tree across the street from Caltech

John Borland, Wired: See Who’s Editing Wikipedia – Diebold, the CIA, a Campaign (via)

Here’s a link to the search tool.

Tadpole with feet

Frog with a tail

Little green frog

Former Caltech mathematics professor John Todd died last week. His wife, Olga Taussky-Todd was the first woman professor at Caltech. Olga Taussky-Todd’s autobiography is available on the Caltech Archives website, and an oral history interview with John Todd is posted on the Center for Advanced Computing Research site.

Planet in the sky over a Caltech parking garage

Beckman Auditorium at dusk

Cahill Center construction in progress

The Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics is being built at Caltech on California just east of Wilson. The Caltech Astronomy department has a Cahill Center construction webcam here.