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Welcome to the cocky ride home for Wednesday, January 13th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

Pablo Escobar's pet hippos have multiplied and are ravaging part of Columbia's capital.

An AI that can create very impressive and artistic images from text commands, maybe a little

too impressive.

And a discovery in England this week that could have been way worse.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

A couple years ago, I read a novella called River of Teeth by Sarah Galey.

The concept of the story is based on a real-world event that almost happened.

So back in the early 20th century, a bill was proposed in the U.S. House of Representatives

and informally supported by Theodore Roosevelt that the U.S. should import

hippopotamuses from Africa to the swamp lands of the Gulf Coast and breed them as an alternative

meat source for Americans, basically starting a new industry in the U.S. of hippo ranching.

As you know, this proposal never came to be, but Galey's novella now industry in the U.S. of Hippo ranching. As you know, this proposal never came to be,

but Gaylee's novella, now collected into a volume with a sequel and some other stories under the

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