Short lessons,
checked twice.
Sixty-second lessons for Reels, TikTok and Shorts, and longer ones when a subject needs the room. Science, history, geopolitics, mathematics, technology and language. Every lesson is researched, checked by a second person, drawn from our own templates and read by a real voice.
What Learn is
Four things,
one standard.
Everything we publish is free to watch and free to read. Each piece carries its sources with it, so you never have to take our word for anything.
Courses
A series of eight lessons on one subject, in an order that builds. Watch them in a week or across a term.
Lessons
Sixty seconds on one idea. The lesson page carries the script, the claim log and the sources.
Explainers
When sixty seconds is not enough: a longer lesson, ten to fifteen minutes, with chapters. They follow the first series.
Resources
Free libraries, archives and tools we use ourselves, with one line each on how to use them well.
The first series
First series 2027.
Two more planned.
We start small on purpose. One series at a time: the first opens in 2027, and the next begins only when the first has shown that the templates and the checking hold up.
- FirstThe Rivers. The geopolitics of water: who owns a river that crosses a border, and what happens when the rules stop working. The sample lesson is built.
- SecondNumbers that run the world. Planned, not started. One number per lesson. An interest rate, a sea level, the price of a barrel, the size of a vote.
- ThirdWords with a history. Planned, not started. A word in Arabic, Urdu or Persian, its root, and the places it travelled before it reached you.
- ThenLonger explainers, and the next subjects, once the first three are out. Nothing is scheduled beyond 2027, and we will not pretend otherwise.
The lesson standard
Checked twice,
then shown.
Five steps, two of them gates. Whoever researched a lesson does not check it. Every claim is logged with what it was checked against, and the log is published with the lesson.
Research
A brief with ten to twenty sources, the key facts, the open disputes, and what most explainers get wrong.
Check
A second person tests every claim against two sources, one of them primary. Any fail sends the brief back.
Script
Forty-five to seventy-five seconds, 120 to 170 words. One idea, one surprise. A person reads it before anything is drawn.
Draw
Each scene will map to one of six templates, built once by hand; the same sign-off card closes every lesson. The words, numbers and maps change. The design does not.
Approve
A real voice records it, captions are burned in, every on-screen fact is checked against the log, and a person says yes.
The full six rules, including what we will never do, are on the About page.
The format sample
One lesson,
built end to end.
The Indus Waters Treaty in about sixty seconds: six storyboard frames, a 155-word script with a source number after every factual sentence, a claim log with seven rows, and the sources. The video is a storyboard, not a finished render. Everything else is the real format.
- The script, as narrated, with a source after every factual sentence.
- The claim log: each claim, what it was checked against, and the result.
- The sources, with the primary ones marked, so you can read them yourself.
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