Link Loving 13.01.11

• Malcolm Gladwell tells us to embrace chaos
• The evolution of alphabets – the human mind is awesome
• The earthquakes of 2010, and a reminder that the death toll in Haiti was down not by the scale of the Earth’s unleashed fury, but by overcrowding in poor urban areas and lax or poorly enforced building codes
• Do we have Ahmadinejad all wrong?
• Some more predictions for 2011, this time from Lawrence Haddad, Director of the Institute of Development Studies
• And if you missed Obama’s speech yesterday, here it is in full glory. (And ignore the cheering. It’s a Southern thing.)
• A wonderful presentation from George Marshall summerising the psychology of climate change