Wednesday linkage

• The official communique from this year's Australia UK Ministerial (AUKMIN) talks.
• Disgust is an important but under-appreciated human trait, and can be exploited to improve development outcomes.
• Behavioural traits also affect the way we use public transport.
• Thailand is backing a massive infrastructure project in Burma. Naturally, there is a political subtext.
• A detailed report on the winners and losers in Egypt's elections.
• The World Bank blog looks at corruption in Vietnam.
• President Obama delivers the annual State of the Union speech later today. It's true theatre, though not in a good way:

I find the pseudo-monarchial trappings of the speech increasingly repellent. We’re in the midst of an election campaign to decide whether Barack Obama gets to keep his office another four years and yet, for 90 minutes or so, we’re supposed to pretend that he’s our king. The entirety of both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court, the Joint Chiefs, and the Cabinet–minus, of course, some token unelected apparatchik kept in a safe location somewhere to reconstitute the government in the event a Japanese airliner rams the Capitol– is supposed to clap like trained monkeys while the Campaigner in Chief delivers a partisan stump speech thinly disguised as a plea for national unity. Or, essentially, an insinuation that criticizing the president is somehow unpatriotic.