Things Worth Knowing

This week was a quick one; always seems to fly by when the week is broken up. On Tuesday, I flew to DC for a quick 24 hours in the capital city. Landed, checked in to hotel, had a quick dinner with friends and then headed to the West Wing of the White House for our 830pm tour. Afterwards, we had drinks with our lovely and knowledgeable guide at the Benjamin Bar in the Trump International Hotel. One of the prettiest bars I’ve been to in a long time, and definitely worth seeing the next time you’re in DC. The next morning I visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the National Portrait Gallery before hopping on a plane home. And now its Friday again! Who else feels like they are always catching up just to fall behind again? Well, here’s to hoping we can catch up this weekend and have a few extra minutes to read this things worth knowing from around the web.

A guide to 12 popular herbal supplements

Here’s a 5 minute therapy technique to help manage anxiety.

Bookstores to visit from around the world.

Martin Scorsese on the Most Expensive and Ambitious Experiment of His Career–and Why He Took It to Netflix

Everything you thought you knew about probiotics is probably wrong.

There’s still time for you to book your ticket on the Four Seasons’ private jet for a trip around the world.

Can a handbag be art? Louis Vuitton thinks so and they’ve collaborated with 5 artists to prove it. See the classic Capucines bag reinterpreted as art.

Listen to David Brooks TED talk on the lies our culture tells us about what matters– and a better way to live.

Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Hart Crane, Sylvia Plath, Yukio Mishima, Primo Levi—in 1986, William Styron almost joined the long list of writers who have committed suicide. He spiraled down into a long and frightening bout with what is commonly known as depression. Now he has chosen to write a searing account of his journey through darkness back to the light.