YES, BUT UNDER NIVEN’S LAW IT WON’T HAPPEN: Science Says Time Travel Is Possible.

At least not if it can change history. Under Niven’s Law, if it’s possible for people to change the past through time travel, they will keep doing so until someone makes a change that ensures that no time machine will be invented anywhere. Then, since that’s a stable state, there are no more changes. So, “If the universe of discourse permits the possibility of time travel and of changing the past, then no time machine will be invented in that universe.”

The essay, alas, doesn’t seem to be online anywhere I can find it, but it’s in his collection, All The Myriad Ways.

HE’D LOST HIS HEAD:Headless dinosaur reunited with its skull, one century later.

WAS THE CATFISH AWARE HOW MUCH DANGER HE WAS IN?  I mean this was Florida Man’s pool.  The catfish is lucky he didn’t emerge painted purple or with a Grateful Dead Tattoo.

IN THE EMAIL FROM DANIELLA BOVA:Cadáin’s Watch.

WHATEVER… UH… FLOATS… UH… NEVERMIND: Man Flushes His Friends Ashes in Ballpark Toilets Around the Country.

IS THIS NEWS TO ANYONE, EXCEPT THOSE FULL OF LIBERAL PRIVILEGE? Conservative Student Speaks Up About Campus Intimidation.

YOU KNOW, THIS SHOCKED FACE IS GETTING KIND OF WORN OUT: DNC Quiet on Vice Chair’s Full-Throated Defense of Anti-Israel Activist.

REASON NUMBER THREE MILLION AND FIVE:Why the Democrats lost .

WE’LL ALWAYS NEED MEN WHO DON’T NEED A DESIGNER TO MUDDY THEIR JEANS: Automation is killing the job market — but don’t be worried.

ISN’T THIS GROOMING BEHAVIOR? Facebook allegedly helped advertisers target sad teens.

I FOR ONE AM RELIEVED; WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO THE COTTAGE INDUSTRY OF NESSIE SOUVENIRS?  The Loch Ness Monster isn’t dead after all.

AS PROMISED, A COMPLETE FREE SHORT STORY IN THE DARKSHIPS UNIVERSE ON MY BLOG: Lost and Found. Yes, I’m sure there are typos.  There always are.  I actually need copy editors, because I’ll read what I think I wrote.  I’ll have it copy edited and give away the mobi file later, promise.

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Plus, save in Automotive Tools and Equipment.

DON SURBER ON STEPHEN COLBERT: Never apologize again, conservatives. Yeah, it’s hard to swallow the “have you no decency” line from people who so manifestly have none themselves.

TRUMP HAS CAUSED A LOT OF AWFUL PEOPLE TO TAKE OFF THE MASKS AND REVEAL THEIR AWFULNESS: Stephen Colbert is what happens when you let politics consume you.

But Colbert’s gay-bashing doesn’t just reveal how awful Colbert is, but how awful is the audience that eats his schtick up.

I WILL FEAR NO EVIL: This Surgeon Claims the World’s First Head Transplant Is Just 10 Months Away.

GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE: V.A. Forces Dying Veteran to Move to Another State for Life-Saving Transplant Surgery.

AND I WOULD HAVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO, IF IT WEREN’T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS AT THE FBI! Hillary Clinton: ‘I was on the way to winning’ until Comey probe, WikiLeaks:

She did say that now she’s focusing on being a citizen and part of the “resistance” when she’s not “in the woods,” a joke at her own expense from the early days after the election when a photo of her hiking in the woods went viral.

“I’m now back to being an activist citizen, and part of the resistance,” said Mrs. Clinton.

Imagine if McCain or Romney had said something similar about “resisting” Obama’s socialism six months after their respective defeats.

Related: “’You cannot get cell coverage for mile,’ Clinton says of the places that voted against her.” Plus, “Most amazing thing Hillary accomplished was making a billionaire living in a gaudy gilded tower seem more down to earth to middle America.”

More: “It’s truly amazing to watch Mitt Romney who was all but raped by the press never blame anyone for his loss while Hillary blames shadows.”

FASTER, PLEASE: A guide to 5G technology.

ANN ALTHOUSE REACTS TO CIVIL WAR HISTORIANS REACTING TO TRUMP: “Experts rely on this word so much these days. It makes me suspect that they intimidate and discipline each other into toeing a party line. Why don’t these experts perform their expertise for the people when they are invited to speak in a general forum like the BBC? It’s especially bad when you add moral opprobrium. Here, the message was, the experts all agree, so you should just adopt our conclusion, because it’s what we say. But on top of that there’s this dire warning: And if you don’t accept our consensus, you’re going to look like a racist. One of the reasons Trump won was because he offered the common people liberation from that kind of bullying from the elite.”

ASKING THE IMPORTANT QUESTIONS: Is protein powder safe? What every athlete should know.

WELL, THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Watch This Robot 3D Print a Building Out of Spray Foam.

MORE MIZZOU FALLOUT: Low Enrollment Hits Apartment Market.

SAD NEWS ABOUT COL. BRUCE HAMPTON: I just wished him happy birthday yesterday! But as musician deaths go, this one wasn’t bad: Onstage with friends and fans.