BBC In Our Time: the Ming voyages.
Financial Times: "The reputation of economists, never high, has been a casualty of the global crisis ..." See also here.
Steve Weinberg on his work as a JASON
BusinessInsider: 15 charts on US wealth and income inequality (the ugly truth).
NYTimes: "... participants judged women made up in varying intensities of luminance contrast (fancy words for how much eyes and lips stand out compared with skin) as more competent than barefaced women, whether they had a quick glance or a longer inspection."