1843 magazine

Art fairs and everyman

Art fairs have come of age

Broadcasting to the poddies

Will podcasting do for audio what blogging did for text? And how will big media respond?

A life hedged about

How to protect yourself against volatile markets

Learning on the job

Why are more aspiring students choosing an Executive Masters in Business Administration over the traditional MBA?

Safety first

Ingenious new stability devices that prevent cars from skidding could halve motoring fatalities

Talk your way into another language

Need to learn another language for a job abroad? Textbooks and tutors may be the worst approach

Water into wine

Few insiders will admit it, but the dirty little secret about Californian wines today is that many of them are adulterated. That happens to be no bad thing

Think twice before you leap

This is as good as private-equity funds are likely to get

Sport

Tennis’s surprising evolution

The traditional serve-and-volley game has gone as better training, new playing styles and fresh faces have brought a welcome unpredictability back to tennis

The heart of the matter

Large doses of medicines called statins can reduce heart patients’ bad cholesterol, giving them a new lease of life. So, if high-risk patients thrive on extra-low cholesterol, couldn’t everyone else?

In for the thrill

Extreme tourism is getting, well, more extreme

Present at the creation

Volkswagen is pioneering a whole new way of selling cars, combining manufacturing with tourism