Undercurrents (magazine)
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Undercurrents magazine was started as a medium for radical views on scientific and technological subjects; it was published in England between 1972 and 1984: 63 editions altogether. For much of that period it appeared every two months and the circulation peaked at 7,000 in the late 1970s. It existed to promote alternative technology
- an infinitely elastic concept embracing almost every subject that so-called 'straight' scientists weren't interested in.
Some of those subjects, such as renewable energy
and waste recycling, have become the conventional wisdom of the 21st century. Others, like ley line
s or dowsing
, remain on the outer fringes of scientific endeavour. Recently one of its editors has started to republish the magazine on the World Wide Web using Scribd
.
Alternative technology
Alternative technology is a term used to refer to technologies that are more environmentally friendly than the functionally equivalent technologies dominant in current practice....
- an infinitely elastic concept embracing almost every subject that so-called 'straight' scientists weren't interested in.
Some of those subjects, such as renewable energy
Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
and waste recycling, have become the conventional wisdom of the 21st century. Others, like ley line
Ley line
Ley lines are alleged alignments of a number of places of geographical and historical interest, such as ancient monuments and megaliths, natural ridge-tops and water-fords...
s or dowsing
Dowsing
Dowsing is a type of divination employed in attempts to locate ground water, buried metals or ores, gemstones, oil, gravesites, and many other objects and materials, as well as so-called currents of earth radiation , without the use of scientific apparatus...
, remain on the outer fringes of scientific endeavour. Recently one of its editors has started to republish the magazine on the World Wide Web using Scribd
Scribd
Scribd is a Web 2.0 based document-sharing website which allows users to post documents of various formats, and embed them into a web page using its iPaper format. Scribd was founded by Trip Adler, Tikhon Bernstam, and Jared Friedman in 2006...
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