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Welcome to Blast Zone 66, Brooklyn’s ultimate adventure gym / future site of a grim 20/20 news segment. We’re the only place in the city where you can pay between $63 and $74 to watch your children come perilously close to spinal injuries and hepatitis A—all to the booming hits of Marshmello.

ATTRACTIONS

Our cavernous, bright purple playspace is truly a kid’s wonderland/ a manifestation of darkest parental nightmares. We feature a wide range of high-flying activities, including:

• unmonitored ziplines
• trampolines crowded with fully grown men clumsily attempting back flips next to toddlers
• forty-foot slides at ridiculously steep angles

Why are the ziplines directly over a concrete floor? Should there be exposed metal pipes in the middle of the trampolines? Are the slides constructed in such a way that the angle and velocity will result in children landing squarely on their necks?

Beats us. We aren’t physicists here, just purveyors of fun.

Destructive and beautiful all at once – an artist on the spectrum captures the ‘souls’ of machines from an Alaskan cabin

- Directed by Leonard Kamerling

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Fish helmets and coconut suits – how the islanders of Oceania built suits of armour without any metal

- by Aeon Video

Watch on Aeon

Being ghosted can feel shocking. But we need to get used to it because there’s no other way to cope with our world

- by Dominic Pettman

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In order to better understand our human nature, we must attempt to build a robot capable of robust subjective experiences

- by Tony J Prescott

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