Undercurrents magazine was started as a medium for radical views on scientific and technological subjects; it was published in England between 1972[1] 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 lines 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.