Eye Level Pasadena

Millikan Library, 1

Millikan Library, 2

The Caltech library system has a blog, too.

Today’s frog

Jacarandas for Kelly, with love:

Jacarandas, 1

Jacarandas, 2

Jacarandas, 3

Yesterday was ditch day at Caltech. Here’s the official Ditch Day 2007 site, and here is some of what I saw on campus yesterday at lunch time:

Not a secret base

Face-off (that’s a dragon on the right)

Rubber ducks flying

Rubber ducks of questionable seaworthiness

Home Sweet Home

Home Sweet Home, as seen from the sidewalk

Road work ahead

Covered wagon

Red winged box

Sudoku on the lawn

Unicycle near construction materials

Clue in an elevator

Hanging balloons with pointy-eared monsters

Extremely mysterious octagon

Ecstatic turtle in Spring

Ecstatic turtle near pink tree

This Friday night, April 6, Friends of Iranian Culture at Caltech will celebrate Nowruz (Iranian New Year) with dancing, music and food. The celebration starts at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public. Caltech Today has the details.

This Caltech press release yesterday bugged me: Certain Types of Brain Damage Can Improve Utilitarian Moral Judgments, Research Show

Fortunately, blogwaffe swooped down from the ethernet to shine the light of reason on it with his post: Lost your prefrontal lobe? Out of the boat!

If you said “throw the injured person overboard”, science has concluded that you have brain damage. (link)

Construction on California just east of Wilson

Turtle stack

Please Do Not Feed Graduate Students