WATCHING TODAY:

1. Life on the Ukrainian border: ‘Trenches. The cold. That’s our reality’: The Times reports as diplomatic tensions are on tenterhooks, the stagnation of the eastern front has allowed some aspects of trench life to assume the trappings of domesticity.

2. Intel “mega-fab” coming to Ohio, reports say: Intel is reportedly planning to build a large chip facility in New Albany, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, the state capital. An official announcement is expected on January 21. The company reportedly plans to invest $20 billion in the site, and the city of New Albany is working to annex up to 3,600 acres of land to accommodate the facility, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer, which first reported the deal.

3. Our obsession with morning routines dates back to Benjamin Franklin: Henry David Thoreau began his days with a brisk early morning swim in Walden Pond, in Concord, MA.

4. How Beatlemania holds us back: Janan Ganesh writes people obsess over the band because modern culture is so static.

5. Dakar Rally 2022: Guardian reports this year’s rally once again returned to Saudi Arabia where 750 competitors in 430 vehicles traversed more than 8,000km over 12 stages. The rally started and ended in Jeddah, going through canyons and cliffs in the Neom region, passing by the Red Sea coastline, into stretches of dunes surrounding the capital Riyadh.