CH·01 @madscihub
Mad Sci Hub
Comedy noir crash-courses for the BioHacker: bioelectricity, longevity, drug discovery, vibe-coding, molecular biology. Adams-James register — brutal, INTJ, hardboiled. Long-form “Investigations” and shorts.
A free, CC0 STEM library · 2,700+ lessons · No login
Paste a URL into Canvas. Students learn.
Mad Sci Hub publishes a teacher-usable lesson page for every video we make — in biology, bioelectricity, AI, longevity, and adjacent science. Free to read. Free to remix. No account, no paywall, no ads. Sponsored by companies that care about the next generation of scientists.
2,711
Lessons published
5
Channels
2
Languages — EN / ZH
$0
Student cost — forever
The pitch
Built so a teacher can teach at 2 a.m.
The reality of modern public education is that a high-school biology teacher opens her laptop at 11 p.m., needs a 40-minute lesson on cell membranes for tomorrow, and has zero budget for textbooks. Every Mad Sci Hub lesson is built for that moment: one clean URL, one embedded video, one self-grading quiz, one printable PDF, one optional certificate the student can post to LinkedIn.
We don’t sell to schools. We don’t sell to students. We don’t run ads. The whole library is CC0 — free to reuse, free to remix, no attribution required. The bills get paid by sponsors who appear in the site header, the sponsor index, and the description of every new video.
The model is built for the long run. Every new lesson makes the next one easier to find. Every backlink from a teacher’s blog makes the next sponsor more valuable. Compounding, not virality, is the plan.
“The cheapest way to teach a country is to give the teachers something they can paste.” — Mad Sci Hub operating thesis
Five channels · One platform
Each channel is a different voice. The lessons all share the same shelf.
CH·02 @madscilectures
Mad Sci Lectures
Serious one-hour walkthroughs. Differential Equations Decoded. Cell Biology Decoded. Ground Truth deep-dives. The chalk-board cousin of the Hub.
CH·03 @madsciclips
Mad Sci Clips
Five-speaker science-podcast clip channel: Levin on bioelectricity, Hassabis on AI biology, Sinclair on longevity, Bongard on living robots, Amodei on AI & biology.
CH·04 @biopunkvoltage
BioPunk Voltage
Synthwave-scored Attenborough-meets-punk narration for the bio-engineering student who studies at 1 a.m. Six Frequencies: awe, spectacle, majesty, velocity, wonder, transcendence.
CH·05 @biopunkambience
BioPunk Ambience
Cozy ambient cousins of Voltage. The post-aging, post-anatomical-compiler world, slowed down. Grown architecture, weather, the warm side of the future.
A lesson, in the wild
Each lesson page is one URL, one video, one quiz, one printable PDF.
No login. Mobile responsive at 360 px. Open-graph preview cards render cleanly inside Canvas, Google Classroom, Schoology, and Moodle. The student can earn a verified certificate — one per lesson — after passing a 5-question quiz. Adult learners post these to LinkedIn.
Canvas
Google Classroom
Schoology
Moodle
Iframe-embed
See a sample lesson →
Bioelectricity BioHacker Course · Lesson 01
The cells in your body talk to each other in millivolts. What are they saying?
Every cell in your body holds a tiny electrical charge across its membrane — about −70 millivolts. That voltage is not a side-effect. It’s a signal. And it might be a target.
Biology
High school+
PDF + Cert
How this stays free · Sponsor ladder
Sponsor a topic. Reach the classroom.
Every Mad Sci Hub lesson gets pasted into LMSes by teachers we will never meet. Each paste is roughly 30 page-views on our domain — permanently, semester after semester. Sponsors appear on that domain. No hard slot caps; price is the filter.
We don’t accept crypto, MLM, or supplement sponsors. Manual review on every tier. The list reshuffles weekly — the top tier is permanent.
Listed
$19/mo
Name on the wall.
- Name + 1-line tagline on /sponsors
- Dofollow backlink to your site
- Weekly rotation in index
- Cancel anytime
Featured
$79/mo
Logo on every new video.
- Everything in Listed
- Logo + tagline on /sponsors index card
- Always-on slot in NEW video descriptions
- One topic-relevant pin per month
Anchor
$149/mo
Your own /sponsors subpage.
- Everything in Featured
- Dedicated
/sponsors/{slug}page - Permanent above-fold on /sponsors
- Monthly pinned-comment shoutout
Header Anchor
$499/mo
Logo in the site header. Everywhere.
- Everything in Anchor
- Persistent logo in site header
- Visible on every page, every lesson
- 1 of 3 slots — first-paid, first-on
Reasonable questions
Things teachers, sponsors, and skeptics ask.
Is this really free? Where’s the catch?
Free forever. The catch is that sponsor logos appear on the site header,
sponsor index, and in the descriptions of new videos. None of that touches
the lesson body. Students never see a paywall, ad-roll, or signup gate.
Can I use this in my classroom without permission?
Yes. Every lesson is CC0 — public domain. Reuse, remix, translate, print,
white-label. No attribution required. The whole point is to lower friction.
How does the certificate work?
Each lesson has a 5-question self-grading quiz. A student who gets 4 of 5
right can enter their name and generate a verified certificate with a unique
hash. Teachers can verify any certificate at
/verify/{hash}.
No login, no email collection.
Will sponsor logos appear inside the lesson text?
No. Sponsors live in the site chrome and the new-video description block.
Lesson bodies stay clean. We do this so a teacher can confidently paste
any URL into a school LMS without worrying about commercial bleed.
Are you replacing my textbook?
No. We’re a complement — a free explainer with video, quiz, and
cert that lives next to whatever curriculum you already use. Teachers
assign one lesson the way they’d assign one YouTube video, except
that the URL doesn’t go through ads.
Who’s behind this?
One person, building daily. Python pipeline + Claude + image-gen + TTS +
render. No VC funding, no school district contract, no curriculum board.
Solo operator who would rather burn $0 for ten years than charge teachers.