[PHOTO] College Park seen at an angle

[PHOTO] Looking at the Confederation Bridge

The Confederation Bridge connecting Prince Edward Island (at Borden-Carleton) to the mainland in New Brunswick (at Cape Jourimain) is an engineering marvel. It is vast: even large trucks are dwarfed by its concrete structure.

[BLOG] Some Friday links

• Bad Astronomy's Phil Plait suggests that the ESA's Rosetta probe may have found evidence for a calving event in its target comet.


• Centauri Dreams looks at Jupiter's extraordinarily volcanic moon of Io.


• The Dragon's Tales' Will Baird notes a report that Russia plans on opening a new air force base in Belarus.


• Far Outliers' Joel describes how Hakodate, the first city of Japan's Hokkaido island, hosted multiple consulates.


• Joe. My. God. and Towleroad note how parishoners at a Roman Catholic church in Illinois are rallying behind their church's music director, fired for announcing his impending marriage.


• Languages of the World's Asya Perelstvaig describes, with maps, the issues of Christians in the Middle East.


• Language Log explores the complexities of newly popular Sanskrit language programs in education.


• Lawyers, Guns and Money explores the survival of the old South and Confederate ideals in the modern Tea Party (1, 2).


• Marginal Revolution started a discussion as to what the European Central Bank should do.


• The Planetary Society Blog hosts a post from Jason Davis describing the innovative online interface for data from the crowd-controlled ISEE-3 probe.


• The Russian Demographics blog notes the confused population policy of Belarus.


• Spacing Toronto notes how Logan Avenue in the east end has become an unofficial slow street.


• Torontoist discusses doorings suffered by cyclists.