ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott. Well, today I get to spend more time with engineer, inventor, writer, and self-taught scientist Forrest Mims.

In his recent memoir, Maverick Scientist, Mims recounts his many adventures as an amateur scientist.

In previous episodes, we've discussed highlights of his career as a writer and scientist,

including his time writing books on electronics for Radio Shack,

how he used his own homemade instruments to point out errors in NASA's own atmospheric data,

his dust up with Scientific American, which will definitely review on this episode,

his experience winning a Rolex award and everything that came out of that,

as well as his work in twilight photometry and other types of measuring.

Well, today, Forrest will talk to us about the history and significance of the world-famous Monoloa Observatory in Hawaii.

It's one of the world's leading stations for monitoring the atmosphere.

And he also shares some of his own experiences there over the last 25 years.

It's a fascinating chapter of Forrest's career as a scientist.

Hey, Forrest, welcome back to the show.

Thank you.

Well, if you're not familiar viewers and listeners with Forrest yet, we need to change that.

Let me give you a few basics. He was named by Discover Magazine as one of the 50 best brains in science,

and he's forged a distinguished scientific career despite having no academic training in science.

He's published over 60 books with publishers that include McGraw Hill,ill, Prentice Hall, Radial Shack, and others.

His Radio Shack books alone have sold over 7.5 million copies.

Mimms' scientific papers have appeared in peer-reviewed journals, such as nature, science,

photochemistry and photobiology, the Journal of Molecular Evolution, the Journal of Geophysical Research, Applied Optics, and the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society.

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