I remember that article. I just looked for it in the ISFDB.org listings
for _Destinies_ and didn't find it. They don't list contents for
_New Destinies_. So you might try _New_ first. (Thinking about it,
I think I remember reading the article while sitting behind the
counter at a bookstore; when the original _Destinies_ was coming
out, I'd have been too young. So that also points to _New Destinies_.)
I do have one fact for you that might help: if memory serves me right
(which it might not) the article was authored by Martin Caidin.
Let me know if you find it -- I'm curious to know whether I'm right.
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I do not know which issue that was.
However, the described device is the so-called "Ripoff rotor".
It can be found in The Colossal Book of Mathematics: Classic Puzzles,
Paradoxes, and Problems by Martin Gardner
http://www.fenomeno.matrix.com.br/fenomeno_fenomenos_1_rotor.htm
It is not a psionic device, it is a hoax that runs off body heat.
Gardner was a founding member of the Skeptical Inquirer,
a group that debunks fringe science claims. He created
the Ripoff rotor as a trap to snag gullible fringe science fans.
I can't help with what you are actually looking for so I
will clarify a different point: DESTINIES ran from 1978 to 1981
(11 issues, I beleive) and NEW DESTINIES ran from 1985 to 1986
(8 issues).
I also seem to recall that the frequency of DESITINIES
varied.
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>I remember that article. I just looked for it in the ISFDB.org listings
>for _Destinies_ and didn't find it. They don't list contents for
>_New Destinies_. So you might try _New_ first. (Thinking about it,
>I think I remember reading the article while sitting behind the
>counter at a bookstore; when the original _Destinies_ was coming
>out, I'd have been too young. So that also points to _New Destinies_.)
>
>I do have one fact for you that might help: if memory serves me right
>(which it might not) the article was authored by Martin Caidin.
That name rings a bell, though I looked him up and am amazed I
don't recall reading other things by him (okay, I saw the Six Million
Dollar Man on TV), as he appears to have been rather prolific.
According to wikipedia and this article
http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/AuthorTotalNewsList.asp?AuNum=101
he wrote over 50 books and over 1,000 articles(!).
A little more net.research finds this page describing Caidin's
[alleged] PK abilities, and this writing is so reminiscent of the
article that I have no doubt Caidin wrote it:
http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:d7in_JHKgqYJ:www.mindreader.com/fate/articles/Fate0604.doc+%22Martin+Caidin%22+esp&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=3&client=firefox-a
>Let me know if you find it -- I'm curious to know whether I'm right.
I found a reference:
http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=059527658X&page=374
Caidin, Martin von Strasser: "Fiction this Ain't." In New
Destinies, IV, Summer 1988, 211-222.
With a title like that, the article is elusive. I may have seen it
before when browsing the contents and dismissed it as not being the
article I was thinking of. But it's not any of the three New Destinies
in front of me.
I found plenty of copies at Amazon once I went to paperbackswap and
found an ISBN: 067165408X