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Courses · first series 2027

Eight lessons.
One subject.
In order.

A course is a series of eight short lessons that build on each other, with the script, the claim log and the sources published for every one. One is in development and two are planned. None is finished yet, and this page says exactly where each one stands.

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سندھSINDH 1960 1960 Lesson 01 · 1:02

How a course works

Short lessons
that add up.

One lesson a day for eight days, or one a week for a term. Each stands on its own, and together they leave you with a working picture of a subject, plus a reading list to go further.

Eight lessons, in order

Lesson one needs no background. Each lesson after it assumes the one before. The last one is longer when the subject has earned it.

Every lesson shows its work

The script with a source after every factual sentence, the claim log, the sources and the credits sit on the lesson page. Nothing is asked to be taken on trust.

A reading list to go on with

Each course ends with five to ten free resources, chosen from our resources page, so the course is a start and not a ceiling.

The series

One in development,
two planned.

Where each one stands today, honestly. The bar counts lessons that have a storyboard and a writer-checked script. Titles marked working are plans, not promises; they will change as the research comes in.

In development · first to open

The Rivers

Geopolitics8 lessons60 seconds each

The geopolitics of water. Who owns a river that crosses a border, how the big treaties were made, what a dam does to the people downstream, and what happens when the rules stop working.

  1. 1960: the year two rivals agreed to share six rivers · sample built
  2. Who owns a river that crosses a border? · working title
  3. How a dam stores a season of rain · working title
  4. The Nile: eleven countries, one river · working title
  5. The Colorado: a river that rarely reaches the sea · working title
  6. The Mekong: six countries, one monsoon · working title
  7. The Jordan: a small river with a long argument · working title
  8. When the rules go quiet · working title, longer lesson
1 of 8 storyboarded · writer-checked, second check pending
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Planned · not started

Numbers that run the world

Mathematics · Economics8 lessons60 seconds each

One number per lesson, and what moves when it moves. An interest rate, a sea level, the price of a barrel, the size of a vote. The Number template will count each one up on screen; the script will say where it comes from and who measures it.

  1. What an interest rate actually is · working title
  2. How a sea level is measured · working title
  3. The price of a barrel · working title
  4. How big is one vote? · working title
  5. What a percentage point hides · working title
  6. How a census counts a country · working title
  7. Inflation: one basket, one year · working title
  8. The numbers nobody measures · working title, longer lesson
0 of 8 lessons · no brief yet
Planned · not started

Words with a history

Language8 lessons60 seconds each

A word in Arabic, Urdu or Persian, large on screen in Amiri. Its root, what it first meant, and the places it travelled before it reached you. Some of them are in your English already.

  1. سامية · Samia: elevated, sublime · working title
  2. Sugar, from Sanskrit to Arabic to you · working title
  3. Algebra: the word before the subject · working title
  4. Admiral: a word that went to sea · working title
  5. Coffee, and the three languages it crossed · working title
  6. Zero: a word for nothing · working title
  7. Sindh, Hind, India: one river, three names · working title
  8. Words that went the other way · working title, longer lesson
0 of 8 lessons · no brief yet

On the board

Ideas, not yet
in development.

Subjects we want to teach once the first three series are out. None has a brief yet. If one of these is the course you need, write to [email protected] and say so; it helps us choose.

Idea

How it works

One machine or system per lesson, drawn piece by piece. A vaccine, a transformer, a ballot count, a container port.

Idea

Maps that explain

Eight maps, each one answering a question that words answer badly. Where the rain falls. Where the cables run.

Idea

Science in one picture

Eight ideas from physics and biology that fit on one drawn plate. Why the sky is blue. How a cell divides.

Idea

A short history of a long thing

Eight objects with a thousand-year story each. Paper. The lens. The stirrup. The sewer.

What a course costs

Nothing.
That is the point.

Every lesson will be published free, on Reels, TikTok and Shorts and on this site. The lesson pages, with the scripts and the sources, are free to read and free to print. There is no paywall and no account, and we do not sell your attention to anyone.

Samia Studios should make knowledge feel like an invitation, not a privilege. Learn is where that sentence has to be true first.

Free to watch

Every lesson, on the platforms and here.

Free to read

Scripts, claim logs, sources and credits, on every lesson page.

Free to show in class

Teachers may play any lesson in a classroom. What that covers.

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