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Having lived in Amsterdam for four years, I’ve gotten to know Amsterdam really well. Here’s my recommendation for a 3-day Amsterdam itinerary, that will bring you through the best parts of the city. Regardless of where you are in Amsterdam, you’ll hear the sound of bike bells echoing through the streets and trams trundling along the tracks that weave their way through the cobblestoned streets of the historic center. Boats drift down the canals, passing under picturesque bridges and alongside centuries-old buildings. The scent of fresh stroopwafels and bitterballen wafts from street vendors, tempting hungry passersby.  Amsterdam is a city...

In Madison Karrh's new point-and-click game, birth follows death. You are lonely in the city, so you wander about, finding bones and organs and then using them to construct a makeshift friend. It would be a Frankenstein story, if it ever felt even slightly gothic. Instead, it's so much better. It feels strange and personal, like being privy to someone's daydreams. Birth follows death: this has the backwards logic of daydreams for starters, topsy-turviness echoing out and finding purchase and expression in the ways that the stuff of the game - feathers, dandelions, pottery pieces, bird skulls - are both...

Prime Gaming subscribers get multiple games in March, including the original Baldur's Gate, I Am Fish and Adios.Read More

Little kids have a unique talent for exposing the limits of your own knowledge, particularly as it relates to complicated-but-common scientific phenomenon. That’s why, if your kid has ever backed you into a rhetorical corner over the concept of evolution, you might have thought to yourself, “If only Charles Darwin were here to handle this for me!” Well, today’s your lucky day. Chris Darwin is the great-great-grandson of Charles; he’s also a father of three who’s carrying on the family tradition as a spokesperson for the conservation of endangered species.So, let’s say your kid asks you the following questions —...

Who wouldn’t like to live in a world without consequences? Where you could go back in time and start all over again. Where we could be fully in charge of whatever happens. Where life would give us lemonade instead of lemons. The reality, however, is way different. So when someone asked “What are the hardest pills to swallow in life?” in an AskReddit thread, it surely hit very close to home for many people. The responses started flowing in, with one uncomfortable truth being spilled after another.#1No one really knows you. They know their own version of you.Image credits: PamelaJWiley#2That...