# Shipslides > A catalog of sandboxed, self-contained HTML presentation decks. Canonical site: https://shipslides.com Total public decks: 360 Total categories: 20 ## Categories ### Architecture Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/architecture Deck count: 10 - [Ancient Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-ancient-architecture) - Architecture begins not with shelter but with ceremony. The first monumental buildings predate agriculture; they predate writing; in some cases they predate... - [Brutalism](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-brutalism) - Brutalism is the most aggressively unloved style in the history of modern architecture, and also one of the most photographed. Half its buildings have been... - [Classical Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-classical-architecture) - For two and a half millennia, "to build well" in the West has meant something close to: build the way the Greeks and Romans built. The argument is not yet... - [Gothic Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-gothic-architecture) - Romanesque churches are thick walls with small holes for light. Gothic churches reverse the proposition: thin stone screens framing immense windows. The... - [Landscape Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-landscape-architecture) - Landscape architecture is the only design discipline that improves over decades. A garden completes itself in 30 years; a park reaches its character in 50... - [Modernist Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-modernist-architecture) - Modernism is the architecture that decided history was over. From roughly 1910 to roughly 1970, an international generation of architects argued that the... - [Renaissance & Baroque Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-renaissance-baroque-architecture) - The Renaissance is the rebirth of classical architecture. The Baroque is what classical architecture does once it has stopped being self-conscious about it. - [Skyscrapers](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-skyscrapers) - A skyscraper is not a tall building. It is a tall building made possible by three specific 19th-century inventions — the steel frame, the safety elevator... - [Sustainable Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-sustainable-architecture) - Buildings are responsible for roughly 37% of global energy-related greenhouse-gas emissions — about 27% from operating energy and 10% from embodied carbon... - [Vernacular Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/architecture-vernacular-architecture) - Vernacular architecture is the architecture of the people who would live in the result. It is built without architects, refined over centuries by trial and... ### Art Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/art Deck count: 25 - [Animation](https://shipslides.com/d/art-animation) - A series of slightly different still images shown in rapid sequence, exploiting persistence of vision to produce the illusion of continuous motion. - [Architecture / a brief structural history](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-architecture) - From the megalith to the megacity. Thirteen sheets tracing how humans have shaped, stacked, vaulted, and printed space — and what each era carried forward... - [Architecture — Plans & Sections](https://shipslides.com/d/art-architecture) - The largest art form humans practise. Six millennia of stacked stone, bent timber, poured concrete, and tensioned cable, in roughly the order they were... - [CINEMA — 125 Years of Moving Images](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-cinema) - SCENE TAKE CINEMA 125 Reel 02 · 1895 The First Audiences Lumière, Paris December 28, 1895. The Lumière brothers project ten short films at the Salon Indien... - [Calligraphy](https://shipslides.com/d/art-calligraphy) - Calligraphy is the slowest visual art and the most patient. A single Chinese character can take a master sixty years to master. A single Quranic verse can... - [Design / 130 Years of Movements](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-design-movements) - A 19th–century revolt against industrial ugliness. William Morris and John Ruskin held that beauty lived in the maker’s hand — in honest... - [Ceramics](https://shipslides.com/d/art-ceramics) - Before bronze, before iron, before glass — fired clay. Ceramics is the oldest engineered material that survives in archaeological volume, and possibly the... - [Impressionism — A Gallery Deck](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-impressionism) - Painting light, 1872–1886 - [Cinema — 24 Frames Per Century](https://shipslides.com/d/art-cinema) - CLAUDEDECK / VOL. IV / DECK 07 - [World Literature — Stories Across Continents](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-literature) - Stories across continents — from the clay tablets of Uruk to the contemporary novel in translation. - [Fashion — A Field Edition](https://shipslides.com/d/art-fashion) - Charles Frederick Worth, an English draper's apprentice, opens a salon at 7 rue de la Paix, Paris, in 1858. He shows finished gowns on live models &mdash... - [Modern Art / 1900-1970](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-modern-movements) - Henri Matisse, André Derain, Maurice de Vlaminck. They paint a face green, a sky pink, a tree red — not to describe the world, but to express it. - [Graphic Design — A Field Guide](https://shipslides.com/d/art-graphic-design) - Vol. IV Deck 05 2026.05 - [MUSIC — A Brief History (Concert Program)](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-music) - ❦ ❦ ❦ Conducted in thirteen movements — use → or click - [Industrial Design — Specification Manual](https://shipslides.com/d/art-industrial-design) - From the Bauhaus workshop to the Apple Park atrium — how the discipline that designs the things you touch before noon got organised, codified, and... - [PHOTOGRAPHY / 1839 — present](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-photography) - From silver-iodide plates and 8-hour exposures to neural networks that hallucinate light. Two centuries of fixing the world onto a surface — and then losing... - [Modernism — Form Follows Form](https://shipslides.com/d/art-modernism) - A field guide to the century when painting forgot to be a window, architecture forgot the column, and design tried to redesign the human being. - [Renaissance Art — A Frescoed Gallery Deck](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-renaissance) - Florence rediscovers seeing — the eye, the line, the human form. - [Photography — Light Writing](https://shipslides.com/d/art-photography) - From the Greek phos (light) and graphein (to write). The medium that ate memory; the medium of the twentieth century; the medium you carry on your person... - [STREET ART // Walls as Canvases](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-art-street-art) - "); background-size:cover;background-repeat:no-repeat;mix-blend-mode:multiply;opacity:.5; }... - [Printmaking](https://shipslides.com/d/art-printmaking) - Printmaking is the art that produces multiples. A drawing is unique; a painting is unique; a print is one of an edition of dozens or hundreds. The artist... - [Renaissance Art — A Field Guide](https://shipslides.com/d/art-renaissance-art) - "); } .page::after{bottom:-2px;right:-2px;transform:rotate(180deg); background-image:url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8, "); } .folio{ font-family:'Cinzel',serif... - [Sculpture — On Volume](https://shipslides.com/d/art-sculpture) - A field guide to the art form that takes up space — from the Kouroi of archaic Greece to the dirt poured in a desert and called sculpture. - [Street Art — Walls as Canvas](https://shipslides.com/d/art-street-art) - Walls as canvas. A pasted-up history of mark-making in public — from the first kid in Philadelphia who wrote his name in marker on a wall, to the global art... - [Typography](https://shipslides.com/d/art-typography) - Typography is the craft of arranging type for legibility, readability, and effect. It is invisible when done well — the reader sees the words, not the... ### Business Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/business Deck count: 26 - [Accounting](https://shipslides.com/d/business-accounting) - Every economic event of consequence — a sale, a loan, a payroll, a depreciation — is recorded twice. Once on each side of the ledger. The mathematical... - [Advertising History](https://shipslides.com/d/business-advertising-history) - Paid, identified communication intended to inform, persuade, or remind audiences about products, services, ideas, or organisations. - [Behavioral Economics — Annotated Whitepaper](https://shipslides.com/d/business-behavioral-econ) - Catalog · Business & Economics · Vol. VII · Deck 07.05 - [Cryptocurrency · Terminal](https://shipslides.com/d/business-cryptocurrency) - Distributed ledgers · permissionless money · contested asset class - [Game Theory — Annotated Whitepaper](https://shipslides.com/d/business-game-theory) - Catalog · Business & Economics · Vol. VII · Deck 07.06 - [Human Resources](https://shipslides.com/d/business-human-resources) - Human resources is the corporate function that hires, pays, develops, manages, and (sometimes) fires the people who do the work. It has been called welfare... - [Leadership — HBR Editorial](https://shipslides.com/d/business-leadership) - The Deck Catalog · Business & Economics · Leadership · Vol. VII · Deck 09 - [Macroeconomics · Terminal](https://shipslides.com/d/business-macroeconomics) - The study of the whole — output, prices, employment, money - [Marketing — Bold Cards](https://shipslides.com/d/business-marketing) - From the Four Ps to TikTok virality, attribution to brand equity. The disciplined art of getting strangers to care. - [Negotiation](https://shipslides.com/d/business-negotiation) - Negotiation is the conversation by which two or more parties with overlapping but not identical interests reach a joint decision. Most adult coordination —... - [Behavioral Economics — When agents are human](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-behavioral-econ) - A thirteen-slide synopsis of the heuristics-and-biases program, prospect theory, and the descendants of Simon, Kahneman, Tversky, and Thaler. - [Operations Management](https://shipslides.com/d/business-operations-management) - Operations management is how the work actually gets done. The factory floor, the warehouse, the call centre, the hospital ER, the Amazon fulfilment hub —... - [BRAND / How meaning gets attached to things](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-brand-history) - / How meaning gets attached to things / - [Organizational Behavior](https://shipslides.com/d/business-organizational-behavior) - Organizational behaviour is the study of how individuals, groups, and structures act inside organizations. It sits where psychology, sociology... - [Personal Finance — Zine](https://shipslides.com/d/business-personal-finance) - ← CATALOG // BUSINESS // PERSONAL FINANCE - [The Modern Corporation — Annual Report](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-corporations) - Before there were corporations, there were chartered companies — sovereign-blessed monopolies pooling private capital for ventures too risky and too... - [Disruption / Why incumbents lose](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-disruption) - A working brief on Clayton Christensen's theory of disruptive innovation — the patterns by which dominant firms, doing everything textbooks recommend... - [Startups — Pitch Deck](https://shipslides.com/d/business-startups) - From Paul Graham's garage to the unicorn parade — what venture capital actually looks for, why most fail, and the few patterns that recur. - [Globalization — How the world got tangled together](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-globalization) - Long before steam, three trade systems wove distant continents together. Each carried not just goods, but ideas, diseases, and — in one case — millions of... - [Strategy — Editorial](https://shipslides.com/d/business-strategy) - The Deck Catalog · Business & Economics · Strategy · Vol. VII · Deck 10 - [Industrial Capitalism — A Ledger](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-industrial-capitalism) - Common fields are fenced; English peasants are dispossessed of customary use-rights. Land becomes a tradable asset and a wage-labour force is freed for the... - [Supply Chain · Control Tower](https://shipslides.com/d/business-supply-chain) - PAGE 01 · OVERVIEW - [Macroeconomics — GDP, Inflation, the Cycle](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-macroeconomics) - A short field guide to the economy at the level of nations — output, prices, employment, money, and the long, uncertain arts of measuring and managing them. - [Personal Finance — Time, Compounding, Discipline](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-personal-finance) - Thirteen slides on the boring, durable principles that separate the financially well from everyone else. - [Startups / How small firms become large ones](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-startups) - Funding stages, growth metrics, and the hard parts — an honest tour of how the modern startup ecosystem actually works. - [MARKETS / 400 YEARS](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-business-stock-market) - FROM 1602 // TO PRESENT // 13 SLIDES ### Cuisine Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/cuisine Deck count: 20 - [Baking](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-baking) - Baking is the most chemical kind of cooking. The oven is closed, the dough is alive, and what comes out depends on choices made hours before — choices about... - [Barbecue](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-barbecue) - Barbecue is the slowest cooking. It is also the most American — not because the technique is American (it isn't) but because the four big regional... - [Chinese Cuisine](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-chinese-cuisine) - Chinese cooking is the longest continuous food tradition on earth. It has fed the largest population, generated the most regional variation, and produced... - [Fermentation](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-fermentation) - Fermentation is what humans do with microbes when both parties win. Yeast eats sugar; we get bread and beer. Lactic acid bacteria eat sugar; we get cheese... - [French Cuisine](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-french-cuisine) - For roughly three centuries — from Louis XIV's Versailles kitchens to the nouvelle revolt of the 1970s — France set the terms by which serious cooking was... - [Indian Cuisine](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-indian-cuisine) - "What is Indian food?" is the wrong question. India is more linguistically and agriculturally diverse than Europe; its food is no more a single cuisine than... - [Italian Cuisine](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-italian-cuisine) - There is no Italian cuisine. There are twenty regional cuisines bound together by a confederation younger than the United States — the Risorgimento finished... - [Japanese Cuisine](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-japanese-cuisine) - UNESCO inscribed washoku — "the dietary cultures of the Japanese, notably for the celebration of the New Year" — on its intangible-heritage list in 2013.... - [Mexican Cuisine](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-mexican-cuisine) - Outside Mexico, Mexican food usually means Tex-Mex. Inside Mexico, the cuisine is one of the world's most regionally complex — UNESCO inscribed it as... - [ME Cuisine](https://shipslides.com/d/cuisine-middle-eastern-cuisine) - Middle Eastern cuisine is a constellation of regional traditions sharing common roots in the eastern Mediterranean and Levantine spice-and-bread tradition.... - [GREAT CITIES / Ten that changed history](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-cities) - A city of brick and clay rising from the floodplain — where civilization first learned to scale. - [FASHION / Garments and what they say](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-fashion) - A t Versailles, Louis XIV understood that silk and stitching could be statecraft. His regulated luxury — silver brocade, towering wigs, red-heeled shoes —... - [FOOD / a global history](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-food) - THIRTEEN COURSES · PRESS → TO BEGIN No. 02 ~ origins ~ course one The Seven Hearths around 10,000 BC, agriculture begins — independently — in many... - [INTERNET CULTURE / forums, memes, attention](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-internet) - A 13-slide tour from BBS dial-tones to algorithmic feeds . Best viewed in 800x600 with a Pentium II and a fresh bowl of Bagel Bites. - [Language / 7,000 voices](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-language) - An atlas of the human capacity to mean — its sounds, its scripts, its families, its futures. - [Migration — A Species on the Move](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-migration) - A species on the move - [Mythology — The stars we tell ourselves by](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-mythology) - We are pattern-seekers. Where there is a sky, we read constellations into it; where there is a death, we tell a story about what comes after. - [Pop Music — A Century of Recorded Sound](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-pop-music) - Before microphones, before radio stardom — pop was a printed medium. A cluster of music publishers on West 28th Street churned out sheet music by the ream... - [World Religions / The Major Answers](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-religions) - A comparative survey of how humanity has answered the oldest questions: who are we, why are we here, and how should we live. - [SPORTS — Play turned into spectacle](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-culture-sports) - A 13-chapter almanac of human contest — from the agora to the algorithm. ### Future Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/future Deck count: 25 - [AGI](https://shipslides.com/d/future-agi) - A synthesis of the technical, governance, and philosophical literature as of 2026 — written so that you can argue with someone who has read Bostrom and... - [Climate Adaptation](https://shipslides.com/d/future-climate-adaptation) - Mitigation reduces emissions. Adaptation reduces the harm of warming already locked in. The IPCC's Sixth Assessment, published in 2022, says the world needs... - [Climate Futures](https://shipslides.com/d/future-climate-futures) - A field manual for thinking about a warming world: what the IPCC scenarios mean, where the tipping points are, what adaptation buys, and what geoengineering... - [Energy Future](https://shipslides.com/d/future-energy-future) - A guide to the technologies that will run the next century — solar, fusion, storage, fission, hydrogen, geothermal — and the messy real-world transitions in... - [Future Cities](https://shipslides.com/d/future-future-cities) - Eight billion people, more than half of them already in cities. By 2050, two-thirds. The shape of urbanism in the next century is the largest physical... - [Future of Work](https://shipslides.com/d/future-future-of-work) - A reasoned guide to automation, gig labor, the four-day week, the universal-basic-income experiments, and the awkward question of meaning after the job. - [Genetic Engineering](https://shipslides.com/d/future-genetic-engineering) - In one decade, gene editing went from Nobel-winning curiosity to FDA-approved cure. The next decade will decide what we are willing to do with the tools —... - [Longevity Technology](https://shipslides.com/d/future-longevity-tech) - The technical and clinical effort to slow, halt, or reverse biological aging — distinct from treating individual age-related diseases. - [Neuromorphic Computing](https://shipslides.com/d/future-neuromorphic-computing) - A human brain runs on twenty watts. A GPU cluster training a frontier language model draws several megawatts. The gap is six orders of magnitude.... - [Posthumanism](https://shipslides.com/d/future-posthumanism) - Not a prediction. A working hypothesis : that Homo sapiens is a transitional species, that the things which replace us may not be flesh, may not be... - [The Singularity](https://shipslides.com/d/future-singularity) - A survey of the strange idea that intelligence will, at some point, accelerate itself out of our cognitive frame — and an attempt to separate which parts... - [Space Colonization](https://shipslides.com/d/future-space-colonization) - From Artemis crews on the lunar south pole to the gigascale fantasies of Dyson swarms — a sober tour of what we might do beyond the atmosphere, and what we... - [Synthetic Biology](https://shipslides.com/d/future-synthetic-biology) - An engineering discipline applied to living systems — designing organisms or biological components to do specific tasks, with the same systematic approach... - [Transhumanism](https://shipslides.com/d/future-transhumanism) - A cool-eyed survey of the movement that says human nature is not the finish line. From cochlear implants to mind uploads, what is now medicine, what is... - [Water Tech](https://shipslides.com/d/future-water-tech) - The world is not running out of water; it is running out of cheap, clean, reliably-available water in the places people live. The rest is engineering... - [AGI // The Most Consequential Question](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-agi) - Systems matching or exceeding human cognitive performance across most economically valuable tasks . - [BCI // Reading and Writing to the Brain](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-bci) - Bypass eyes and ears. Read intent from cortex, write signals back. Once medical-only — now an arms race. - [CLIMATE / 2026 - 2100](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-climate) - Pathways and scenarios. What is committed, what is contingent, and what remains a choice — across four canonical futures. - [Energy Transition / Fossils to Electrons](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-energy-transition) - The defining infrastructure project of the century. Cheap solar, cheap batteries, an electrified everything — and a deployment problem the size of every... - [FUSION / a star, in a bottle](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-fusion) - 13 SLIDES · THE SCIENCE · THE PROJECTS · THE TIMELINE - [Genetic Engineering / Beyond CRISPR](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-genetic-engineering) - From cutting DNA to rewriting it. A field-tour of base editors, prime editors, epigenetic switches, gene drives, and the engineered organisms that will... - [LONGEVITY / What we know about extending healthspan](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-longevity) - A clinical-trial style tour of the hallmarks of aging, the interventions actually being tested in humans, and the honest limits of what biology will allow. - [Quantum Computing — A Different Kind of Computer](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-quantum-computing) - Classical bits are switches: 0 or 1, definite at every instant. A qubit is a quantum object whose state is a continuous combination — a superposition — of 0... - [ROBOTICS FUTURE / Humanoids in every warehouse](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-robotics) - A 13-slide field briefing on the next decade of physical AI: humanoid platforms, autonomous agriculture, and robotic surgery. - [Becoming Multiplanetary — Space Colonization](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-future-space-colonization) - Mars · 2036 Briefing Becoming Multiplanetary. A sober tour of where humans go next — the Moon, Mars, and the very long road beyond. What is plausible. What... ### Geography Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/geography Deck count: 10 - [Africa](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-africa) - Every human alive has African ancestors. The genetic, fossil and archaeological record agree: Homo sapiens emerged in Africa around 300,000 years ago, and a... - [The Poles](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-arctic-antarctic) - The Arctic and Antarctic are not mirror images. The Arctic is a sea surrounded by land; the Antarctic is land surrounded by sea. The asymmetry shapes... - [Deserts](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-deserts) - Deserts are not failed landscapes. They are the parts of the planet where rainfall is too rare to support continuous vegetation — and the result is some of... - [Islands of the Pacific](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-islands-of-the-pacific) - The Pacific is not water with islands in it. It is a continent of islands — settled, mapped, sailed, and governed by some of the most accomplished maritime... - [Mega-cities](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-mega-cities) - In 1800 perhaps 3% of humanity lived in cities. In 1950 it was 30%. In 2024 it crossed 57%. By 2050, on UN projections, it will be 68%. The 21st century is... - [Mountains](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-mountains) - Mountains are slow-motion catastrophes — pieces of Earth's crust still rising and breaking apart, populated by people who have learned to live on slopes the... - [Rivers](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-rivers) - Every great pre-modern civilization lived on a river. Not most. All. The Nile, the Tigris-Euphrates, the Indus, the Yellow, the Yangtze, the Ganges — these... - [Silk Road](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-silk-road) - There was no Silk Road. There was no single route, no central administration, no continuous caravans walking from Xi'an to Constantinople. The phrase was... - [World Geography](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-world-geography) - No discipline tries to hold more at once. Geography is the science that has to put rocks, climate, water, vegetation, animals and humans on the same map and... - [World Heritage](https://shipslides.com/d/geography-world-heritage) - In 1972 the international community agreed that some places — the Pyramids, the Great Wall, the Galapagos — were the patrimony of all humanity, not just the... ### Health Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/health Deck count: 25 - [Dental Health](https://shipslides.com/d/health-dental-health) - The human dentition is the hardest tissue in the body and one of the most demanding to maintain. Two-thirds of the world's adults have untreated dental... - [Exercise Physiology](https://shipslides.com/d/health-exercise-physiology) - Exercise is the single most powerful intervention in the prevention of chronic disease. The data on cardiorespiratory fitness as a mortality predictor is... - [Exercise Science](https://shipslides.com/d/health-exercise-science) - Strength. Endurance. Recovery. Periodization. The physiology and the practice of training a human body to do more than it could yesterday. - [Genomics — The Deck Catalog](https://shipslides.com/d/health-genomics) - Genomics is the systematic study of an organism's complete DNA — every base, every gene, every regulatory element — and the relationships between sequence... - [Human Anatomy](https://shipslides.com/d/health-human-anatomy) - Anatomy is the study of structure; physiology is the study of what that structure does. Together they describe a living architecture composed of roughly... - [Immunology](https://shipslides.com/d/health-immunology) - A working laboratory notebook on innate and adaptive defense, the antibody Y, vaccines, and the ways the immune system mistakes self for enemy. - [Longevity](https://shipslides.com/d/health-longevity) - Aging is the progressive loss of physiological integrity. It is the largest single risk factor for cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration, type 2... - [Medical History](https://shipslides.com/d/health-medical-history) - "It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has." — attributed to Hippocrates of Kos (c. 460... - [Mental Health Treatments](https://shipslides.com/d/health-mental-health-treatments) - Mental health treatment in 2026 is more effective and more available than at any point in human history. The treatment gap — the proportion of people with... - [Mental Health](https://shipslides.com/d/health-mental-health) - Mental health is a state of well-being in which a person can cope with normal stresses, work productively, and contribute to community. Mental illness —... - [Nutrition](https://shipslides.com/d/health-nutrition) - A cookbook editor's tour of the macros, micros, metabolism, and the diets you've been told to follow — with the evidence behind each, plainly stated. - [Pharmacology](https://shipslides.com/d/health-pharmacology) - A clinician's spec sheet to drugs — pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and the major classes by mechanism, with named molecules. - [Public Health](https://shipslides.com/d/health-public-health) - Between 1900 and 2000, life expectancy at birth rose from ~47 to ~77 years in the United States. Modern medicine — antibiotics, surgery, transplant —... - [Sleep Science](https://shipslides.com/d/health-sleep-science) - A guided night through the body's most repeated and least understood ritual — circadian rhythm, the architecture of stages, the meaning of dreams, and the... - [Vaccines — The Deck Catalog](https://shipslides.com/d/health-vaccines) - A vaccine is a controlled rehearsal. The body meets a defanged version of a pathogen, mounts an immune response, and files the memory away. When the real... - [Aging — The Mechanics of Getting Older](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-aging) - Average life expectancy in 1900 hovered around the mid-40s. Today it sits near 79 in high-income countries — but the gain came mostly from preventing... - [Anatomia humana — a guided tour](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-anatomy) - Of the systems of the human body — twelve plates & a colophon Ex Officina · Anno MMXXVI Plate II — Numerus Corporis The body in numbers Corpus humanum... - [Medical Breakthroughs — The Big Steps That Saved Lives](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-breakthroughs) - The big steps that saved lives — from cowpox lymph in a country doctor's hand to messenger RNA folded by an algorithm. Two centuries of pushing back against... - [Major Diseases — the big four of chronic illness](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-diseases) - Cardiovascular disease — ischemic heart disease, stroke, hypertensive complications — claims roughly 17 million lives every year, more than any... - [EXERCISE / The most underused medicine](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-exercise) - A 13-slide field guide to what we know — and what we keep getting wrong — about training, adaptation, and the body's response to movement. - [Mental Health — The Mind Under Pressure](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-mental) - Disorders, treatments, and the evolving understanding of how brain, mind, and circumstance intertwine. - [NUTRITION / What we know, what we don't](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-nutrition) - Field Notes / 13 slides NUTRITION What we know, what we don't. A honest survey of dietary science: macros, micros, the metabolic narrative, ultra-processed... - [PANDEMICS / A SHORT HISTORY OF DISEASE](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-pandemics) - From Justinian's plague to the COVID-19 era — thirteen panels of contagion, catastrophe, and the slow accumulation of public-health wisdom. - [Pharmacology / How drugs find their targets](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-pharmacology) - Small molecules and large biologics navigating a body of 10 13 cells, looking for the one protein they were designed to bind. - [Sleep — A Third of Life, Finally Examined](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-health-sleep) - a third of life, finally examined ### History Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/history Deck count: 27 - [20th-Century Revolutions](https://shipslides.com/d/history-20th-century-revolutions) - 01 / 17 History · Deck 10 · Pop-Art Comic 20th-CENTURY REVOLUTIONS! 1917 · 1949 · 1959 · 1968 · 1979 · 1989 — six decades of crowds in the streets... - [African Empires](https://shipslides.com/d/history-african-empires) - MALI SONGHAI AKSUM G. ZIMBABWE KONGO 01 / 14 History · Deck 08 · Risograph African Empires Mali · Songhai · Kongo · Great Zimbabwe · Aksum — large... - [The Age of Exploration](https://shipslides.com/d/history-age-of-exploration) - A century and a half during which European sails — and almost no one else's at this scale — joined the hemispheres of the world. - [Ancient Civilizations](https://shipslides.com/d/history-ancient-civilizations) - Mesopotamia · Egypt · Indus · Greece · Rome - [Asian Dynasties](https://shipslides.com/d/history-asian-dynasties) - History · Deck 07 Asian Dynasties A long quiet across long centuries. Tang, Song, Ming, Qing, Tokugawa, Joseon — empires that ruled, often, more populations... - [Cold War Spies](https://shipslides.com/d/history-cold-war-spies) - Two superpowers, no direct combat, forty-six years of espionage at unprecedented scale. The Cold War was many things; it was also the golden age of... - [The Cold War](https://shipslides.com/d/history-cold-war) - 01 / 19 ★ History · Deck 04 The Cold War 1945 · 1991 · A FORTY-SIX-YEAR STAND-OFF - [The French Revolution — The Deck Catalog](https://shipslides.com/d/history-french-revolution) - The Revolution did not invent democracy or human rights — it inherited them from the Enlightenment and the Americans. What it invented was the modern... - [Greek Civilization](https://shipslides.com/d/history-greek-civilization) - In a strip of broken coastline and stony islands, between roughly 800 and 300 BCE, a constellation of small cities produced the philosophical, political... - [Industrial Britain](https://shipslides.com/d/history-industrial-britain) - Between roughly 1760 and 1840, on a small wet island off the northwest coast of Europe, human beings broke through a ceiling on productivity that had... - [INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION // DECK 03](https://shipslides.com/d/history-industrial-revolution) - [ STEAM_/_STEEL_/_SMOKE ] 1760 — 1900 // BRITAIN -> EUROPE -> WORLD - [The Mongol Empire](https://shipslides.com/d/history-mongol-empire) - In a single lifetime, a man born under the name Temüjin united the warring tribes of the steppe, conquered northern China, sacked the great cities of... - [The Persian Empire](https://shipslides.com/d/history-persian-empire) - Before Rome, before Han China, the Achaemenid Persians built the largest contiguous land empire the world had yet seen — and the most administratively... - [Pre-Columbian Americas](https://shipslides.com/d/history-pre-columbian) - AZTEC MAYA INCA MISSISSIPPIAN CAHOKIA 01 / 16 History · Deck 09 · Bauhaus Pre— Columbian Americas Two continents. Tens of thousands of years. Maya, Inca... - [The Renaissance](https://shipslides.com/d/history-renaissance) - Liber Quintus · History · Deck V The Renaissance Florence · the Medici · Leonardo · the recovery of the human measure - [The Roman Empire — The Deck Catalog](https://shipslides.com/d/history-roman-empire) - Rome is the empire against which every later European state has measured itself. Charlemagne crowned in 800. The Holy Roman Empire that lasted to 1806. The... - [The World Wars](https://shipslides.com/d/history-world-wars) - From the Sarajevo pistol to the Hiroshima cloud — a single, broken arc. - [REVOLUTIONS // The 20th Century](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-20th-century-revolutions) - 01 / 13 ← → / SPACE / CLICK A 13-PART AGITPROP DECK · 1900 — 2000 REVOLUTIONS The 20th Century RUSSIA · CHINA · CUBA ·... - [Age of Exploration — Caravels and Conquest 1400–1600](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-age-of-exploration) - N S W E Anno Domini MCDXCII · A Cartographer's Account AGE OF EXPLORATION Caravels & Conquest · 1400 — 1600 Drawn upon parchment · with rhumb & rose - [Aegyptus — Three Thousand Years on the Nile](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-ancient-egypt) - From the unification of the Two Lands to the death of Cleopatra — a civilization that watched empires rise and fall, and outlasted them all. - [COLD WAR / 1945-1991](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-cold-war) - SUBJECT: ORIGIN 1945 FILE 002/13 // SECTION 02 — POSTWAR CONFIDENTIAL THE BREAK CODENAME // YALTA-POTSDAM May 1945 — the swastika falls in Berlin. By... - [Industrial Revolution — Steam, Steel, Smoke](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-industrial-revolution) - "); } .page::after { bottom: 8px; right: 8px; transform: rotate(180deg); background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8, "); } /* Stamps and rules */ h1... - [Medievalia / Europe 500-1500](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-medieval-europe) - Medievalia EUROPE · 500 – 1500 - [The Renaissance — An Illuminated Codex](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-renaissance) - "); } .page::after { bottom: 6px; right: 6px; transform: scale(-1, -1); background-image: url("data:image/svg+xml;utf8, "); } .corner-tr, .corner-bl {... - [Roma — Imperium](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-roman-empire) - ROMA Imperium ❖ S P Q R Senātus Populusque Rōmānus — The Senate and People of Rome A thousand years, in thirteen acts. 753 BC — 476 AD. - [The Silk Road — Caravans across Eurasia](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-silk-road) - N The Silk Road Caravans across Eurasia ~ 200 BC · 1450 AD A history in thirteen panels I. Origins — A Han Envoy Heads West In 138 BC , Emperor Wu of the... - [WORLD WAR II / 1939-1945 — Broadsheet Edition](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-history-world-war-ii) - Causes · Course · Consequences ### Languages Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/languages Deck count: 10 - [Computational Linguistics](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-computational-linguistics) - Computational linguistics is the discipline of making language tractable for machines — and, almost accidentally, of making machines that have changed what... - [Dialects & Sociolinguistics](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-dialects-and-sociolinguistics) - The Yiddish linguist Max Weinreich's quip — recorded by him in 1945 from an audience member at a YIVO lecture — is the field's epigram. There is no purely... - [Endangered Languages](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-endangered-languages) - A language dies, on average, every two weeks. Within a century, between 50 and 90 percent of human linguistic diversity will be gone. The catastrophe is... - [The History of English](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-english-history) - English is unusual. It is the only major European language with no gender, almost no case, and a vocabulary borrowed from a half-dozen unrelated sources.... - [Indo-European](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-indo-european) - Three of every seven humans alive speak an Indo-European language. The family is the most successful in human history, and its discovery is the founding... - [Origins of Language](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-origins-of-language) - No fossil preserves a sentence. No artefact records the first word. The origin of language is the central problem of human evolution and the one for which... - [SLA](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-second-language-acquisition) - Most adults who try to learn a second language do not become fluent. The exceptions are interesting; the rule is sobering. - [Sign](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-sign-languages) - Sign languages are full natural languages — phonology (in the manual modality), morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics. They are not pantomime, not... - [Sino-Tibetan](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-sino-tibetan) - Sino-Tibetan is the second-largest language family on earth by speakers — second only to Indo-European — and on present evidence the oldest continuously... - [Writing Systems](https://shipslides.com/d/languages-writing-systems) - Language is universal among humans; writing is not. Writing has been independently invented at most five times in the history of the species, and most... ### Literature Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/literature Deck count: 15 - [Children's Literature](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-childrens-literature) - Books written for children, illustrated for children, published for children, and read by children — sometimes also by their parents, and often, decades... - [Comics](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-comics-graphic-novels) - Comics — sequential art with text and image working together — is among the youngest narrative forms (200 years vs. millennia for novels) and among the most... - [Contemporary Fiction](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-contemporary-fiction) - Contemporary, in this deck, is roughly 2000 to now. Twenty-six years of literary fiction. Three observable shifts. - [Drama](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-drama) - Drama is the only literary form whose finished version is a live performance. Everything else — the text, the stage directions, the script — is... - [Epic & Myth](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-epic-and-myth) - Almost every culture that has produced a literature has produced an epic — a long, formal, poetic account of how its people came to be where they are. - [The Essay Tradition](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-essay-tradition) - An essay is a piece of prose that thinks. Argument is welcome but not required; the form's distinguishing feature is the visible movement of a mind —... - [Lit-Journ](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-journalism-as-literature) - Some journalism is literature. The work that happens when a reporter brings novelistic technique — scene, character, voice, pacing — to the documentary task... - [Literary Modernism](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-literary-modernism) - Modernism, in literature, is the period when writers stopped assuming the inherited forms of the 19th century could carry what they wanted to say. - [Memoir & Autobiography](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-memoir) - Autobiography is the story of a life. Memoir is the story of a moment, a relationship, a question, an obsession — told from inside a life. Auto-fiction is... - [Mystery & Detective Fiction](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-mystery-and-detective) - The detective story is the only literary form in which the reader is officially permitted to enjoy a corpse. Its central labour is to make the disordered... - [The Novel](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-novels) - A novel is a long prose fiction, almost always told in chapters, almost always concerned with the interior life of at least one ordinary person, and almost... - [Poetry](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-poetry) - The single fact that distinguishes poetry from prose is the line. Where a sentence ends because a thought is finished, a line ends because the poet has... - [Science Fiction](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-science-fiction) - Science fiction is the literature that takes one premise its world does not allow — a different physics, a different history, a different species — and... - [Short Fiction](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-short-fiction) - A short story is the form a writer uses when a single effect is the whole point. It does in twenty pages what a novel needs three hundred for and what a... - [World Literature](https://shipslides.com/d/literature-world-literature) - Almost everything you have not yet read. The English-speaking world publishes roughly 3% of its books in translation; in France, the figure is over 20%; in... ### Mathematics Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/mathematics Deck count: 22 - [Algebra](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-algebra) - Algebra is the mathematics of structure: of operations, of equations, of the symmetries that connect one quantity to another. It begins with the idea that a... - [Applied Mathematics](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-applied-math) - Mathematics put to work on the world. - [Calculus](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-calculus) - Calculus is the mathematics of change — of how a quantity behaves as another quantity shifts continuously. It turned the static algebra of equation-solving... - [Cryptography](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-cryptography) - Three thousand years of attempts to make a message readable to its intended recipient and unreadable to anyone else. Until 1976, all of it ran on the same... - [Discrete Mathematics](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-discrete-math) - The mathematics of objects you can count. - [Game Theory · Deep](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-game-theory-deep) - Game theory is what happens when you take rational-choice theory and add other rational choosers. It is the formal mathematics of multi-agent decision — not... - [Geometry](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-geometry) - Geometry is the mathematics of shape, space, and the relations between them. It is the oldest branch of the discipline that still has a recognisable name. - [A History of Mathematics](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-math-history) - A condensed history of the longest-running argument in human thought. - [Mathematical Logic](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-mathematical-logic) - The mathematical study of mathematical reasoning. - [Number Theory](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-number-theory) - "Mathematics is the queen of the sciences," Gauss wrote, "and number theory is the queen of mathematics." The compliment was not idle. Gauss devoted his... - [Probability](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-probability) - Probability is the mathematics of uncertainty. It quantifies how often things happen — or, on a different reading, how much we should believe they will. - [Topology](https://shipslides.com/d/mathematics-topology) - Geometry minus distance. The study of properties that survive continuous deformation. - [Calculus — The Mathematics of Change](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-calculus) - Newton + Leibniz, ~1665–1684 - [Mathematical Cryptography](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-cryptography) - A substitution cipher maps each plaintext letter to a fixed ciphertext letter. Caesar's shift is a special case: c ≡ p + k (mod 26) . - [Game Theory — Strategy when others strategize too](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-game-theory) - A 13-slide tour of payoffs, equilibria, and the mathematics of mutual anticipation — from von Neumann's chessboard to the FCC spectrum auction. - [Geometry — A Drafting Table Deck](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-geometry) - A Drafting Table Deck · XIII Plates Geometry / The science of shape From the surveyor’s rope to the curvature of spacetime — thirty-five... - [Linear Algebra — Vectors, Matrices, Transformations](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-linear-algebra) - Vectors, matrices, transformations. - [Mathematicians — Lives behind the theorems](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-mathematicians) - Eleven figures, twenty-five centuries. From a Greek cult leader who heard the world as ratios to a wandering Hungarian who slept on his colleagues' couches... - [Number Theory — The Queen of Mathematics](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-number-theory) - 2 3 “Mathematics is the queen of the sciences, and number theory is the queen of mathematics.” — C. F. Gauss ❦ ❦ Chapter I The Integers §1. The playing... - [Probability — A Grammar for Uncertainty](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-probability) - a grammar for uncertainty - [Topology — Shape without Measurement](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-topology) - homeomorphism Same shape, different presentation. The puzzle To a topologist, a coffee cup is a donut. Stretch, bend, twist — but never cut, never glue.... - [Unsolved — Open Problems in Mathematics](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-math-unsolved) - Some questions sit on the board for centuries. They look simple. They aren't. ### Music Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/music Deck count: 15 - [The Blues](https://shipslides.com/d/music-blues) - The blues is a 12-bar form, a flat-third-and-flat-seventh harmonic palette, and a vocal idiom — and also a cultural inheritance carried by African Americans... - [Classical](https://shipslides.com/d/music-classical) - A continuous tradition of written-down sacred and secular European music — from neumes scratched onto medieval parchment to sound files exported from... - [Country Music](https://shipslides.com/d/music-country) - A commercial American popular-music tradition that emerged in the late 1920s from Anglo-Celtic ballad, African-American blues, gospel, and Western cowboy... - [Electronic](https://shipslides.com/d/music-electronic) - 1948. French radio engineer Pierre Schaeffer broadcasts Étude aux chemins de fer — a four-minute piece composed entirely of recorded train sounds. He calls... - [Folk Traditions](https://shipslides.com/d/music-folk-traditions) - A definition by Cecil Sharp, the English collector who first systematized the term: folk music is music handed down by oral tradition, varying as it passes... - [Gospel](https://shipslides.com/d/music-gospel) - Gospel is Black sacred music — the descendant of the spirituals, the parent of soul, the working tradition of the Black American church for nearly a century. - [Hip-Hop](https://shipslides.com/d/music-hip-hop) - August 11, 1973. Cindy Campbell throws a back-to-school party in the rec room of 1520 Sedgwick Avenue, the Bronx. Her brother Clive — DJ Kool Herc — runs... - [Jazz](https://shipslides.com/d/music-jazz) - Jazz coalesced in New Orleans in the first decade of the 20th century — Black and Creole musicians fusing blues, ragtime, brass-band march music, and... - [Music Production](https://shipslides.com/d/music-music-production) - For the first 50 years of recording — Edison's tinfoil cylinder (1877) to the introduction of magnetic tape in the 1940s — recording was a single take... - [Music Theory](https://shipslides.com/d/music-music-theory) - A pitched sound is a periodic vibration. Its perceived pitch corresponds to its fundamental frequency in cycles per second (hertz, Hz). - [Opera](https://shipslides.com/d/music-opera) - Florence, the 1570s. A group of intellectuals — the Camerata fiorentina, meeting at the home of Count Giovanni de' Bardi — try to reconstruct ancient Greek... - [R&B/Soul](https://shipslides.com/d/music-rnb-soul) - Rhythm and blues (R&B) is the umbrella term for African-American popular music since the late 1940s. Soul, its mid-1960s flowering, is gospel transposed... - [Rock](https://shipslides.com/d/music-rock) - R o c k begins in the late-1940s collision of country, gospel, and electrified blues — Muddy Waters going from Mississippi to Chicago in 1943 with an... - [The Singer-Songwriter Tradition](https://shipslides.com/d/music-singer-songwriter) - The singer-songwriter is the figure who writes the song and then performs it, alone or accompanied, with the writing audible in the singing. The song is... - [World Music](https://shipslides.com/d/music-world-music) - "World music" is a category invented by record-store managers in London in 1987 to file everything that wasn't classical, jazz, rock, or pop. The term is... ### Mythology Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/mythology Deck count: 10 - [African Mythology](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-african-mythology) - There is no "African mythology" in the singular — Africa contains roughly two thousand language groups, and a comparable count of distinct mythic... - [Celtic Mythology](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-celtic-mythology) - The Celts had no scripture. Their priestly class — the druids — taught the gods orally and would not commit the doctrines to writing. So when Christianity... - [Egyptian Mythology](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-egyptian-mythology) - Egyptian religion ran continuously for longer than any other system in this volume — from the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt around 3100 BCE to the... - [Greek & Roman Mythology](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-greek-roman-mythology) - No mythological system has been more relentlessly read, painted, sculpted, staged, and rewritten than the Greek. Two and a half millennia of European art... - [Hindu Mythology](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-hindu-mythology) - Not one mythology but a layered, polyvalent literature — Vedic, epic, Puranic, regional — accumulating over three thousand years and still being told today. - [Japanese Mythology](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-japanese-mythology) - A native cosmology of place and ancestry — kami in everything — overlaid by 1,500 years of Buddhism and Confucianism, written down in two 8th-century... - [Mesoamerican](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-mesoamerican-mythology) - Mesoamerican mythologies — the religious cosmologies of the peoples between central Mexico and Honduras — are among the most fully developed pre-Columbian... - [Norse Mythology](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-norse-mythology) - The Norse gods are unique among the major mythological systems in knowing, from the start, how the world ends. They lose. They fight anyway. - [Slavic](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-slavic-mythology) - Slavic mythology is what we can reconstruct from fragments. Pre-Christian Slavic religion was largely oral; its conversion to Christianity (988 CE in Kiev... - [Comparative](https://shipslides.com/d/mythology-world-mythology-comparative) - Comparative mythology is the study of structural and thematic parallels across human mythological traditions. It claims that certain narratives, character... ### Nature Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/nature Deck count: 12 - [Birds](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-birds) - Birds are dinosaurs. Not like dinosaurs, not descended from something dinosaur-adjacent. They are theropod dinosaurs, the surviving sister-line of... - [Botany](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-botany) - Plantae — kingdom of the photosynthetic eukaryotes - [Climate Change](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-climate-change) - A dashboard of the physical basis, observed impacts, scenarios, and the near-term solutions space. Last data refresh: NOAA Mauna Loa, IPCC AR6, Berkeley... - [Conservation](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-conservation) - Protected Areas · IUCN Red List · Rewilding · Recoveries - [Ecosystems](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-ecosystems) - Food webs · Succession · Biomes · Trophic Cascades — A field manual for reading the living machinery of a place. - [Forests](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-forests) - Biomes · Structure · Ecology · Deforestation — Tabulated by the Bureau, illustrated from field plates. - [Geology](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-geology) - Plate tectonics · Rocks · Deep time · Hazards · Resources - [Microbiology](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-microbiology) - Microbes outnumber human cells in your body roughly one to one — the older 10:1 estimate has been revised down by Sender, Fuchs, and Milo (2016). Either... - [Oceans](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-oceans) - "The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." — Jacques Cousteau - [Sustainability](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-sustainability) - Circular economy · Energy · Agriculture · Cities — A working systems-design overview of how 8 billion humans might live within planetary boundaries by... - [Weather](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-weather) - A live console of the global atmosphere — circulation, fronts, severe weather, forecasting. Drawn from NOAA, ECMWF, and the storm-watcher tradition of... - [Wildlife](https://shipslides.com/d/nature-wildlife) - Animalia · Eukaryota · the kingdom that moves ### Philosophy Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/philosophy Deck count: 24 - [Aesthetics — Deck 08](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-aesthetics) - A philosophical gallery of beauty, taste, and art — across three centuries of careful argument and an even longer tradition of looking. - [Ancient Greek Philosophy — Deck 01](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-ancient-greek) - All men by nature desire to know. - [Eastern Philosophy — Deck 02](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-eastern-philosophy) - The Way that can be told is not the eternal Way. - [Ethics of Technology](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-ethics-of-technology) - The philosophy of technology is the philosophical investigation of artefacts, systems, and the practices they sustain. It is younger than most of philosophy... - [Ethics — Deck 04](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-ethics) - Four families of moral theory, the famous arguments that ground them, and the famous counter-examples that haunt them. Plus the trolley. - [Existentialism — Deck 03](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-existentialism) - Existentialism is not a doctrine. It is a family of related insistences. Existence (the lived, particular, situated) precedes essence (the abstract... - [Logic — Deck 05](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-logic) - Two and a half thousand years of trying to write down what it means for one thing to follow from another. - [Philosophy of Art](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-philosophy-of-art) - The philosophy of art is the philosophical investigation of what art is, what makes something beautiful, what aesthetic experience consists in, and why any... - [Philosophy of Language](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-philosophy-of-language) - The philosophy of language is the philosophical investigation of meaning, reference, truth, and the relation of language to thought and world. As an... - [Philosophy of Mind — Deck 07](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-philosophy-of-mind) - What is consciousness? Is the mind the brain? Could a machine think? Five centuries of arguments, with new urgency in the age of large neural networks. - [Philosophy of Science](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-philosophy-of-science) - A second-order discipline. Philosophy of science does not do science; it studies what scientists do, what they should do, and why we are entitled to believe... - [Political Philosophy — Deck 06](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-political-philosophy) - Why obey? Why this government, and not another? Who owns the world? Six answers across four centuries — and the standing arguments, still in print, against... - [Pragmatism — Deck 10](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-pragmatism) - Notes on the most American of philosophical traditions — from a metaphysical club in Cambridge, Mass., 1872, through John Dewey's classroom, to the ironist... - [Stoicism — Deck 09](https://shipslides.com/d/philosophy-stoicism) - Liber IX · Stoicismus - [Aesthetics — What Makes a Thing Beautiful?](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-aesthetics) - What makes a thing beautiful? - [Greek Philosophy — from Thales to the Stoics](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-ancient-greek) - Athens — Aegean — Ionia Greek Philosophy from Thales to the Stoics - [Eastern Philosophy — The Long Traditions](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-eastern) - Eastern Philosophy the long traditions - [The Enlightenment — Reason against Tradition](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-enlightenment) - Of the Age of Lights — A Discourse in XIII Plates - [Epistemology — What can be known?](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-epistemology) - From Plato's Theaetetus to the replication crisis — a brief survey of the theory of knowledge: its objects, its sources, and the limits of what we may... - [Ethics — How should one live?](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-ethics) - Five frameworks. One trolley. A persistent question. The brief atlas of moral philosophy. - [Existentialism — A Brief Introduction](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-existentialism) - Not “what is the world?” - [Logic — The Form of Valid Inference](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-logic) - From the syllogism to incompleteness: twenty-three centuries of trying to mechanize reasoning, and the discovery that reason itself has limits. - [Philosophy of Mind — The puzzle of the inner life](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-mind) - What is consciousness, why does it feel like anything, and could a machine ever have it? A short tour through the puzzles, positions, and thought... - [Political Philosophy — Justice, Power, the State](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-philosophy-political) - Being a brief inquiry into the foundations of authority, the just distribution of goods, and the legitimate use of force among free persons. ### Psychology Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/psychology Deck count: 13 - [Behavioral Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-behavioral) - Between roughly 1913 and 1965 a school of psychologists insisted that the proper subject of their science was not the mind but the body — specifically, what... - [Clinical Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-clinical) - The discipline that takes mental suffering as its subject and tries, with limited tools, to relieve it. - [Cognitive Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-cognitive) - Cognitive psychology is the experimental study of mental processes — perception, attention, memory, language, reasoning, decision-making &mdash... - [Developmental Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-developmental) - How a 270-day collection of cells becomes, over twenty years, a creature capable of doing calculus, falling in love, and lying about its taxes. - [Evolutionary Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-evolutionary) - Take seriously that the brain, like every other organ, was built by natural selection. Then ask: what cognitive architecture would such a brain have, and... - [Forensic Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-forensic-psychology) - A field that exists because legal questions about credibility, competence, intent, and risk are also psychological questions — and because the courts, left... - [Learning & Memory](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-learning-and-memory) - Memory is not a video recording. It is a reconstructive process that uses partial cues to assemble something that feels like a recording. - [Neuropsychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-neuropsychology) - The clinical discipline that infers the architecture of the human mind from the patterns of damage that disrupt it. - [Personality Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-personality) - A working definition: stable patterns of thought, feeling, and behaviour that distinguish individuals and persist across time and situations. - [Positive Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-positive) - A scientific programme to study what makes a life go well, distinct from but related to clinical psychology's older project of studying what makes a life go... - [Psychometrics](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-psychometrics) - The discipline that asks: when we say someone "has high anxiety" or "an IQ of 120," what does that statement mean, and how would we know if we were wrong? - [Social Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-social) - Social psychology is the experimental study of how people think, feel, and act in the actual or imagined presence of other people — conformity... - [Sport Psychology](https://shipslides.com/d/psychology-sport-psychology) - A field that exists because, at the elite level, the physical gap between competitors closes — and the psychological gap is what remains. ### Religion Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/religion Deck count: 10 - [Buddhism](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-buddhism) - Buddhism is what the Buddha taught and what his followers — across 2,500 years and a continent — made of the teaching. It is one of the largest world... - [Christianity](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-christianity) - Christianity is the faith that the Galilean Jew Jesus of Nazareth, executed by the Romans around 30 CE, was raised from the dead and is the Messiah promised... - [Comparative Religion](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-comparative-religion) - "He who knows one, knows none." Friedrich Max Müller's phrase, lifted from Goethe and applied to religions, became the founding aphorism of comparative... - [Hinduism](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-hinduism) - Hinduism is not one religion. It is the term Westerners coined in the nineteenth century for an enormous family of traditions, philosophies, ritual systems... - [Indigenous Religions](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-indigenous-religions) - A category of necessity, not of nature. The world's roughly 370 million indigenous people belong to thousands of distinct peoples — Yoruba, Maori, Lakota... - [Islam](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-islam) - Islam is the religion founded on the conviction that there is no god but God ( lā ilāha illa'llāh ) and that Muhammad ibn... - [Judaism](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-judaism) - A religion, an ethnicity, a peoplehood, a textual tradition, and an argument. Judaism is what the Jewish people have done with the covenant they understand... - [Mysticism](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-mysticism) - A claim of direct, non-mediated experience of ultimate reality, found in some practitioners of every major religious tradition and in some practitioners of... - [Secular Spirituality](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-secular-spirituality) - A growing category of modern life: people who have left, or never joined, organised religion, but who pursue contemplative practice, ethical commitment, and... - [Taoism & Confucianism](https://shipslides.com/d/religion-taoism-confucianism) - Chinese civilisation has been shaped, more than by any other intellectual force, by the long conversation between two indigenous traditions. Confucianism —... ### Science Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/science Deck count: 24 - [Astronomy](https://shipslides.com/d/science-astronomy) - A guide to what the eye, the dish, and the mirror have seen — from a 4.6 Gyr-old yellow dwarf, to galaxies whose photons left before Earth had oceans. - [Biochemistry](https://shipslides.com/d/science-biochemistry) - Cells are wet bags of organic chemistry. Biochemistry is the study of those reactions — what molecules, organised how, doing what. Reductive in method; vast... - [Biology](https://shipslides.com/d/science-biology) - A field-notebook for the living world. Cell, organism, ecosystem, biosphere — each level emerges from the one below. Equations are scarce here; pattern is... - [Chemistry](https://shipslides.com/d/science-chemistry) - A grid of 118 squares, a handful of bonds, and the chemistry that builds rocks, refines copper, prints proteins, and powers everything from your batteries... - [Climate Science](https://shipslides.com/d/science-climate-science) - A planet wrapped in a thin atmosphere, swallowing sunlight and radiating it back. The accounting is well understood; the consequences are accelerating. - [Ecology](https://shipslides.com/d/science-ecology) - The study of relationships — between organisms, between organisms and their environment, between species and the abiotic conditions that make life possible. - [Electromagnetism](https://shipslides.com/d/science-electromagnetism) - Electricity and magnetism look like separate phenomena. They are not. Maxwell's 1865 paper showed they are aspects of one field — and that field's waves... - [Evolution](https://shipslides.com/d/science-evolution) - "It is not the strongest of the species that survives... but the one most responsive to change ." — apocryphally attributed to Darwin (actually Megginson... - [Genetics](https://shipslides.com/d/science-genetics) - From a 19th-century monk counting peas to a CRISPR pipette in a high school lab. The story of how a four-letter alphabet runs every life on Earth. - [Geology](https://shipslides.com/d/science-geology) - Earth is a layered, slow-cooking heat engine, and the stones at our feet are its receipts. This atlas traces the science of rocks, time, and the moving... - [Mathematics](https://shipslides.com/d/science-mathematics) - "The mathematician does not study pure mathematics because it is useful; he studies it because he delights in it..." — Henri Poincaré, 1908 - [Neuroscience](https://shipslides.com/d/science-neuroscience) - ~86,000,000,000 neurons. ~10¹⁵ synapses. The 1.4-kg organ that thinks about itself, often poorly. - [Particle Physics](https://shipslides.com/d/science-particle-physics) - Working drawings for the smallest things. The Standard Model is the most precisely tested theory in human history — and it is incomplete. - [Quantum Mechanics](https://shipslides.com/d/science-quantum-mechanics) - The mathematical theory that correctly predicts the behaviour of atoms, molecules, photons, and everything built from them. Also: a philosophical mess. - [CLIMATE / Earth's thermostat in motion](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-climate) - What we know, how we know it, and where we're heading. A 13-slide synthesis of paleoclimate records, attribution science, and the road ahead. - [Cosmology / 13.8 billion years, briefly](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-cosmology) - A short tour of everything that has ever happened — from a singularity smaller than a proton to a thin, cold sea of photons drifting through eternity. - [Ecology / Webs of Dependence](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-ecology) - — A FIELD GUIDE, PLATE I — ECOLOGY Webs of Dependence Thirteen Plates · on Living Systems Plate II Levels of Organization from a single being to the... - [On the Origin of Species — A Field Notebook](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-evolution) - evolution by natural selection - [Genetics & DNA — Mendel to CRISPR](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-genetics) - DECK / 5'-GENETICS-3' 2026 / SCIENCE // THE MOLECULAR ARCHIVE GENETICS / The Four-Letter Alphabet From a monastery garden to programmable molecules — how... - [Neuroscience / 86 billion cells, talking](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-neuroscience) - Brain, mind, cognition — a clinical tour of the most complex object known to science. - [Particle Physics — The Zoo of Fundamental Things](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-particle-physics) - CERN · A Field Guide · No. 13 Particle Physics / The zoo of fundamental things From Thomson's electron to the Higgs — a hundred and twenty-five years of... - [The Periodic Table — Pattern in Matter](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-periodic-table) - For most of history, "elements" meant earth, water, fire, air. The chemical revolution gave that scheme a final shove — and three thinkers laid the... - [Plate Tectonics — Field Guide](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-plate-tectonics) - Alfred Wegener, a German meteorologist, noticed that the coastlines of South America and Africa fit like puzzle pieces. Matching fossils, glacial deposits... - [Quantum Physics — A Notebook](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-science-quantum-physics) - Quantum Physics — A Notebook — from Planck (1900) to Entanglement ### Sports Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/sports Deck count: 13 - [Baseball](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-baseball) - Baseball is the only major American sport with no clock. A game ends when twenty-seven outs have been recorded by the team in the field; if those outs take... - [Basketball](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-basketball) - Basketball is the only major team sport with a single inventor and a documented birthday. James Naismith nailed two peach baskets to the gym balcony of the... - [Modern Board Games](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-board-games) - A modern board game is a designed system in which two to six players make consequential decisions across forty-five to a hundred and twenty minutes... - [Chess](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-chess) - Two players, sixty-four squares, thirty-two pieces, perfect information, no chance. The deepest combinatorial structure ever absorbed into a popular pastime. - [Climbing](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-climbing) - Climbing is the discipline of moving over rock, ice, or built holds against gravity, with or without protection, alone or roped. The disciplines have... - [Cycling](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-cycling) - Cycling is the rare sport whose foundational event was invented as a marketing scheme — and whose romance has survived every doping scandal, every... - [Esports](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-esports) - Competitive play of videogames, organised at scale, watched as spectator entertainment, with prize money, sponsorships, and broadcast infrastructure that... - [Football (Soccer)](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-football-soccer) - No other sport is even close. Cricket has India; American football has America; football has everywhere — Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, the diaspora.... - [Martial Arts](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-martial-arts) - "Martial arts" is a 19th-century English translation of 武術 (bujutsu) — the technical fighting skills of Japan's warrior class — but the term has come to... - [Motorsport](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-motorsport) - Motorsport is the wager that the next iteration of the engineering — engine, chassis, tyre, aerodynamics, driver — can shave seconds off a previous lap, in... - [The Olympics](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-olympics) - The Olympics are the only event in human civic life that brings together every nation on the planet on a fixed schedule for two weeks. The 2024 Paris Games... - [Swim](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-swimming) - Swimming is the cleanest test of human propulsion in fluid. No equipment beyond a suit, cap, and goggles. The water is the same in Sydney as in... - [Tennis](https://shipslides.com/d/sports-tennis) - Tennis grew up in monasteries and royal courts; it has never quite shed the manners. Wimbledon's all-white dress code, Roland Garros's red clay, the... ### Technology Imported and community decks waiting for editorial categorization. URL: https://shipslides.com/c/technology Deck count: 24 - [AI & Machine Learning](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-ai-and-ml) - A 70-year arc that stalled twice, then accelerated past most of its critics. Below: dates, names, and the equations that built modern AI. - [Biotech](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-biotech) - A century of laboratory technique reduced biology to a programmable substrate. Fourteen pages on what we built, what we mean by it, and what it might do next. - [Blockchain](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-blockchain) - We survey eighteen years of cryptographically secured distributed ledgers, beginning with the publication of Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System... - [Compilers](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-compilers) - A compiler is a program that translates a program. The input is source code in one language; the output is an executable program — usually in machine code... - [Computer Networks](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-computer-networks) - A computer network is a set of machines that exchange messages by following a shared protocol. The internet is the network of networks: an interconnection... - [CPUs and Architecture](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-cpus-and-architecture) - A central processing unit fetches an instruction from memory, decodes it, executes it, and writes the result. Then it does the same with the next... - [Cybersecurity](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-cybersecurity) - A field that began with one student running a worm at MIT in 1988, and turned into the connective tissue of every other industry. Sixteen pages of... - [Databases](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-databases) - A system for organising structured data so that it can be stored durably, queried flexibly, and modified safely by many programs at once. - [Internet History](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-internet-history) - UNDER CONSTRUCTION visitor # 000123456 - [Mobile Computing](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-mobile-computing) - Forty years of pocketable computers. From the Apple Newton's misread ink to a foldable device with a six-billion-parameter on-device model. Sixteen pages. - [Operating Systems](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-operating-systems) - whoami - [Quantum Computing](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-quantum-computing) - A quick tour of the qubit and the machines we built around it — from Feynman's 1982 lecture to the noisy intermediate-scale era. - [Robotics](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-robotics) - N.T.S. - [Space Technology](https://shipslides.com/d/technology-space-tech) - Seven decades of getting hardware out of the gravity well — and increasingly bringing it back. - [AI — The Road to General Intelligence](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-ai-revolution) - From the first artificial neuron sketched in 1943 to large language models trained on most of the public internet — eight decades of one idea, scaled. - [Biotechnology — Editing biology like software](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-biotech) - From cutting and pasting genes in 1973 to writing mRNA scripts that run inside your cells. A working tour of the platforms that turned living systems into... - [COMPUTING / a brief history](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-computing-history) - Charles Babbage designed a mechanical, general-purpose computer with a "mill" (CPU), "store" (memory), and punched-card input — over a century before the... - [Cryptography / Declassified](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-cryptography) - Julius Caesar protected military dispatches with a substitution so simple a soldier could memorize it: shift every letter of the plaintext forward by three... - [THE INTERNET // A FIFTY-YEAR HISTORY](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-internet-history) - ┌──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ │ │ │ └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ THE INTERNET... - [Nanotechnology / Engineering at the atomic scale](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-nanotech) - Caltech, December 29, 1959 . Richard Feynman delivers the founding lecture of nanotechnology before the field exists. - [Renewable Energy / The cost-curve revolution](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-renewable-energy) - Every doubling of cumulative solar capacity has knocked roughly 20-25% off price. The curve has held for four decades. - [ROBOTICS / Machines that move](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-robotics) - FROM INDUSTRIAL ARMS → HUMANOIDS - [SPACE / from V-2 to reusable boosters](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-space-tech) - AD ASTRA 2026 / 13 FILED 02 MAY 2026 NORTH AMERICAN BUREAU CLEARANCE — PUBLIC SPACE / from V-2 to reusable boosters A 13-sheet technical brief on the... - [VR / AR — Worlds rendered, worlds overlaid](https://shipslides.com/d/catalog-tech-vr-ar) - From Sutherland's Sword of Damocles to Apple Vision Pro — six decades of strapping screens to faces, and learning what the eyes will tolerate.