At least some connection with the following, surely? Years ago Scientific American had an Amateur Scientist column. This was sadly abandoned in 2001 apparently

At least some connection with the following, surely? Years ago Scientific American had an Amateur Scientist column. This was sadly abandoned in 2001 apparently due to the lack of an appropriate contributor. Its projects are listed here. http://amasci.com/amateur/sciamdx.html http://amasci.com/amateur/sciamdx.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amateur_Scientist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amateur_Scientist