Sid Krofft's subversive and fantastical TV puppet worlds will live on

Sid Krofft’s subversive and fantastical TV puppet worlds will live on

Puppeteer, producer, self-described “artist” and “dreamer” Sid Krofft, who with his brother Marty made a wonderland of Saturday morning television through the 1970s, died Friday at 96. (Marty, younger by nearly eight years, died in 2023.) Their left-field shared fantasies included “H.R. Pufnstuf” (magical island, with a dragon for a mayor), “Lidsville” (anthropomorphic hats), “The…

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Two Earth-Size Worlds in TRAPPIST-1 System Reveal Stark Divide Between Day and Night

New Webb observations of two exoplanets TRAPPIST-1b and TRAPPIST-1c show blistering days and frozen nights, offering the first detailed climate maps of rocky exoplanets and dimming hopes for habitability. This artist’s impression shows an imagined view from the surface one of the three exoplanets orbiting the ultracool dwarf star TRAPPIST-1 38.8 light-years from Earth. These…

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