Share of global trade
Dairy group climbs 30% on its first day of trading
Why this matters to you
Shipping and packaged food prices move first when a listing this size reprices.
2.17xThe offer was subscribed 2.17 times by investors.
Reported
A card for every storyThe news, read
The news, read
at a glance.
One card carries the figure that matters, why it touches you, and where it came from. Turn it for the people involved, or the story in full.
12categories
60ways to draw a number
3cards a story
01 / 03
One story
Three cards, one turn apart.
The story card is what you read. The other two are there when a name or a full account is what you actually wanted.
Who is involved
The people
Thermal survival is the unsolved half of the problem.
Mare CrisiumLanding site for four of the probes.
Still transmitting
Eight of eleven lunar landers have gone silent since 2023
Why this matters to you
Surviving the lunar night is now the bottleneck, not landing on the surface.
14 daysA lunar night lasts roughly 14 Earth days.
Reported
In full
The summary
Eight of eleven lunar landers have gone silent since 2023
Of eleven robotic landers sent to the Moon since 2023, only three still transmit. Most failed during the two-week lunar night, when surface temperatures fall below the tolerance of standard batteries and electronics.
Behind the card
From wire to card.
01
The story arrives
Public news feeds come in through the Currents API, tagged by publisher and category.
02
The figures come out
Software reads the article and pulls the people, places and numbers that carry it.
03
The card takes shape
A count draws a grid, a deadline draws a countdown. No figure worth trusting, no chart.
The mark
Twelve shapes. Sixty drawings.
The mark on a cover is a claim about the shape of the story — something counted, something narrowing, a deadline closing in. Each shape has five drawings, so the same kind of story never looks the same twice.
Grid
Something counted
Bars
Magnitudes compared
Funnel
A number narrowing
Ticks
Periods elapsed
Countdown
A deadline approaching
Lanes
Flow moving or blocked
Arc
Severity on a gauge
Rating
A score out of a maximum
Spectrum
A signal with a cliff
Span
A gap or an absence
Chain
Sequential progress
Plain
No figure worth drawing
Your feed
Choose up to five.
Each category carries its own colour and its own cover texture through the whole card, so you know what you are looking at before you read a word.
Sources and limits
What a card is, and is not.
- Collected
- Stories arrive from public feeds, tagged by publisher. Brief holds no newsroom.
- Attributed
- The publisher's name sits on the cover of every card, next to when it was filed.
- Traced
- A figure reaches a card only if its exact phrase is still in the source article.
- Left blank
- No trustworthy number means a plain mark that encodes nothing. No invented chart.
- Unreviewed
- Cards are assembled by software. No journalist writes or checks one before you see it.
- Fallible
- Automated reading can lose a qualifier or misplace a quote. Check the original.
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