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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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A dark card reading "a healthy person, a normal result, and a range built on somebody else." — the cover for a free classroom lesson on population data and whether a genetic finding transfers.

Lesson: when genetic findings don't apply to other populations

GeneticsStatisticsSocial studiesHealth Age 16+ Intermediate PDF

A free lesson on reading data critically, using this site as the dataset. The class computes the same prediction in five populations and measures how wrong it gets — six points for one variant, fifty-two for another. Then we publish our own audit: 72.2% of the variants here were discovered in entirely European samples.

Updated Sep 8, 2026 7 68

A dark card reading "your calculation will be wrong. that is the lesson." — the cover for a free classroom genetics lesson on lactase persistence.

Lesson: lactose tolerance and natural selection

BiologyGeneticsStatisticsSocial studies Age 13+ Intermediate PDF

A free genetics lesson on natural selection, with no equipment needed. The class computes a prediction from real allele frequencies, gets a clean answer, and then finds out it is wrong — because the same solution evolved four separate times in the last few thousand years.

Updated Sep 7, 2026 6 66

The alleles your parents kept still predict your schooling — three million genomes on educational attainment

The Genes Your Parents Didn't Pass On Still Predicted Your Schooling

GeneticsStatisticsSocial studies Advanced

Three million genomes, 3,952 variants, and a result so strange it changes what the whole field means: the DNA your parents did not pass on still predicts how far you went in school. Here is what the research on studying actually says.

Sep 6, 2026 6 74