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Lessons that are free to use in any classroom, new research, changes to the dataset, plain-language explainers, and the real genetics behind things you already know. Every entry says which subject it belongs to and what you need to know before reading it. Medical information goes stale, so entries are revised when the evidence moves — revised entries show their update date, not just the day they were first published. Every article here is CC BY-NC 4.0 licensed — free to share and adapt with credit, not for commercial use (details).

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How to read a pedigree, and where the textbook rule breaks — a free genetics lesson

Lesson: how to read a pedigree, and where the textbook rule breaks

BiologyGeneticsMathematics Age 13+ Intermediate PDF

A free genetics lesson on pedigree analysis. Three clean family trees teach the three inheritance patterns; the fourth is real, and the rule the class just learned gives the wrong answer on it.

Updated Sep 8, 2026 7 73

A dark card reading "run enough tests and nothing becomes something." — the cover for a free classroom lesson on p-values and the multiple testing problem.

Lesson: p-values, and why genetics uses 0.00000005

StatisticsMathematicsGenetics Age 16+ Advanced PDF

A free statistics lesson with one coin per student. The class runs six hundred studies of something that is definitely not happening, gets about thirty-eight discoveries, and works out from there why genetics needs a p-value of 0.00000005 rather than 0.05.

Updated Sep 8, 2026 8 63

A radioactive spider would not have done that — the real genetics behind strength, pain and climbing

The Real Genetics Behind Spider-Man

BiologyPhysicsMathematics Age 13+ Intermediate PDF

Spider-Man is back in cinemas, so here is the honest version: what each of those abilities would actually require, and what the published research says about the three that turn out to be real — in people, right now.

Updated Sep 7, 2026 10 70