Studio Curriculum Suite Biome
Biome: Environmental Science
Soil to climate policy, separating the settled from the contested.
- Subject
- Environmental Science
- Lessons
- 100
- Glossary
- 672 terms
- Profiles
- 60
Biome covers an introductory sequence and the first two years of a degree: the physical Earth and ecology first, then water, air and pollution, then energy, population and health, then climate, policy and futures.
The course is quantitative where the subject is quantitative — energy return on investment, dose-response curves, residence times, discount rates and attribution statistics all appear with numbers rather than adjectives. It also separates what is settled from what is not. That the planet is warming and that humans are the cause is settled, and the lesson on attribution shows how that was established rather than asserting it. Climate sensitivity, the social cost of carbon and the safety of nuclear power are genuinely contested, and those lessons give the range of positions and the evidence behind each.
- 60 researcher profiles, from Humboldt and Carson to Keeling and Hansen.
- 18 landmark cases the field learned from: Minamata, Love Canal, Bhopal, the ozone hole, Flint.
// how it is built
What you get
100 lessons, four years
A full degree-shaped sequence, 15 to 25 minutes a lesson, in the order the subject is actually taught.
On-device narration
Listen instead of read. Narration uses the system speech synthesizer, so no audio ever leaves the phone.
Cross-linked glossary
Hundreds of terms, each linked back to the lessons that use it and forward to the ones that build on it.
Case files
18 landmark studies, experiments or episodes reconstructed in full, each listing the record it rests on.
Spaced repetition
The scheduler brings back the terms you keep forgetting, on the interval that makes them stick.
Daily widgets
Three Home Screen widgets — a quote, a term and a figure — each rotating daily.
- Works offlineNo signal required — everything ships in the download.
- No accountNothing to sign up for. No email, no password, no profile.
- One-time unlockA single purchase, not a subscription. Family Sharing enabled.
- Home Screen widgetsGlanceable widgets that update on their own.
// common questions
FAQ
How much is free?
The first ten lessons. One purchase of $9.99 unlocks the remaining ninety and everything else, permanently, with Family Sharing enabled.
Does it need an internet connection?
No. The app makes no network connections of any kind. Every lesson, profile, glossary entry, quiz and case study is bundled in the download, which is why the download is large.
Is this accredited? Do I get credit?
No. It is a self-study course written to the level of a university survey sequence. It carries no accreditation and grants no credit.
Where do the numbers come from?
Every effect size, sample size and date in a lesson is stated so it can be checked. Case files list the specific record they rest on. Where a familiar textbook figure is wrong, the lesson gives the real one and explains why it moved.
How do I move my progress to a new phone?
Progress, bookmarks and notes are stored on-device and are included in an encrypted iPhone or iCloud device backup. Restoring that backup onto the new phone brings them across. There is no account-based sync.