Feel it necessary to report that Martin Gardner died of natural causes this weekend in Norman, OK., at the age of 95. One of my favorite writers/essayists/thinkers who I blogged on a few occasions here:
http://scienceontap.blogspot.com/2009/07/martin-gardner.html
http://scienceontap.blogspot.com/2009/10/jinn-from-hyperspace.html
http://scienceontap.blogspot.com/2010/04/