University of Iowa
About University of Iowa
The University of Iowa is a public research university in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1847, it is the oldest and largest university in the state. The University of Iowa is organized into 12 colleges offering more than 200 areas of study and 7 professional degrees.
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The modern trampoline was developed in 1934 by two guys called George Nissen and Larry Griswold at the University of Iowa. George Nissen was traveling in Spain and heard the word trampoline, which meant the springboard.
from No Such Thing As A Screaming Scream, 2016-07-29 at 00:04:23 · read transcript
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There are 380,000 species of beetle, which is a quarter of all animal species, which is a lot, obviously. There's a scientist from the University of Iowa called Andrew Forbes, who reckons that there are so many parasitic wasps and that every single species of insect even has at least one and probably several species of tiny, tiny parasitic wasp inside it. He reckons that wasps outnumber even beetles by about two and a half times.
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