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1843 Magazine

April/May 2019

Cover Photograph PAUL ZAK
Features
Death of the calorie
For more than a century we’ve counted on calories to tell us what will make us fat. Peter Wilson says it’s time to bury the world’s most misleading measure
How to get a million-dollar advance
Tomi Adeyemi’s mythical version of Africa is changing the way young Americans think about race. She talks to Jasmine Sanders about what comes next
Why the long face?
Did you hear the one about the horse that talked to a psychic in New Zealand?
Mastermind
Demis Hassabis founded a company to build the world’s most powerful AI. Then Google bought him out. Hal Hodson asks who is in charge
Upfront
The 1843 interview Smoking with David Hockney
All the rage What the world is watching, reading and singing
Cheat's guide The meaning of Miró’s doodles
Postcard from Silicon Valley How to hack the freeconomy
Brave new word Why it’s cool to be a dirt spoon in Korea
How we live now Why I fear the beard is here to stay
Design
My life in six objects The typewriter that made me a writer
Brand illusions Why stars make water fizzier
Stranger things Keys, like ourselves, are creatures of habit
Beyond human Soon we’ll be able to control cars with our eyes
Rewind Why dating apps are like bicycles
Tool kit The best home audio products for awesome sound
Style
Dress code I’m ageing gracefully, with Botox
The science of fashion How wool lost its itch
The Line of Beauty Power dressing
Fashion victim My trousers were literally held up with rope
Food
The ingredient Give okra a chance
Home cooking A homage to Ghanaian cooking
World in a dish The story of sachertorte
Journeys
America Swimming through Arizona soothed my mind
The bluff guide How to talk about Barbados when you’ve never been
Taste the fear What it feels like to scale a glacier
City nights Snapshots of nightlife in Beirut
Back page
#FirstWorldProblems Do you know a good panic-room maker?
DESIGN SPECIAL 2019
Profile Oki Sato sees the funny side of Japanese design
House Style A picture-perfect apartment
I wish I’d done that Learning to have fun with the Memphis Group
Design Sitting comfortably, Seventies-style
I wish I’d done that Gimme shelter: the visionary Refuge Tonneau
Gardens A bumper crop of outdoor furniture
I wish I’d done that Benjamin Hubert on Dieter Rams’s modular hi-fi system
Venice The designers putting Murano back on the map