5 Interesting Links for 10-17-2014

Black Ink (Art)

Beautiful work and a close up look at the technique.
http://nicolasjolly.net/fingerprint-black-rain-black-ink-drawing/

Mississippi River (Cartography)

A map of the various paths the Mississippi has run, showing a wide range.
http://imgur.com/gallery/AgKLb0M

Airships (Technology)

While not powered by steam, reading the description of this brand new airship sounds much like the common language of steampunk equipment with its bladders and pipes, but unlike steampunk, this thing is for real. Slow, but it has the potential to reach places currently unreachable by plane or road.
http://gizmodo.com/the-aluminum-airship-of-the-future-has-finally-flown-1301320903

Block (Writing)

Dave Farland lists out the various known causes of writer’s block and offers viable suggestions for working through them. Me, I find signing up for something like NaNo works because I’m usually #4 and if I have an external motivator I give myself permission to write.
http://www.davidfarland.com/writing_tips/?a=411

Killer Whales (Zoology)

An experiment that compared the vocalizations of killer whales housed with or without dolphins found the killer whales can learn dolphin vocalizations:
http://www.livescience.com/48231-killer-whales-talk-like-dolphins.html

War Child by Margaret McGaffey Fisk

Melnae grew up on tales of fire-eating demons and even fought in the shahran’s army. Now, a demon force approaches her home while her daughter bears the mark of a fire-eater. Can she protect her daughter without betraying her people?
War Child

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