Angel Reese (born 2002) is an American college basketball player for the Louisiana State University Tigers (LSU) of the Southeastern Conference (SEC). At Saint Frances Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, she was ranked the number two player nationally in the class of 2020 by ESPN. Reese joined the Maryland Terrapins as the highest-ranked recruit in program history, and was named a third-team All-American by the Associated Press as a sophomore. In her junior season, Reese transferred to LSU and was a unanimous first-team All-American selection. She led LSU to its first national championship, where she was Most Outstanding Player. Reese set the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) single-season record in double-doubles and the SEC single-season record in rebounds. At the international level, Reese helped the United States win a silver medal at the 2023 FIBA Women's AmeriCup. She is estimated to be one of the top earners among college athletes from name, image and likeness deals. (Full article...)

Gold-morph swamp guppies

• ... that female swamp guppies (pictured) show no preference for orange or red coloration during courtship?
• ... that Andrea Blanch said that she came to appreciate Jeff Koons's artwork more after suing him for copyright infringement?
• ... that Desert Bus requires eight hours of continuous play to gain one point?
• ... that Coco of Coco & Clair Clair developed her alias for school announcements during her senior year of high school?
• ... that the Transvaal Chinese Association opposed discriminatory legislation in the British Transvaal Colony alongside Mahatma Gandhi?
• ... that Turkish migrant workers living in a residential complex in Amsterdam refused to eat the Dutch food for two weeks after the kitchen's only Turkish chef was fired?
• ... that an Australian High Court case found a hotel chain to have used third-party contractors to avoid paying employees their required benefits?
• ... that a tattoo on the anus of Brazilian singer Anitta ultimately led to inquiries to investigate the use of public funds in artists' concerts?

Ingenuity on Mars

• Following damage to the helicopter's rotors, NASA ends the Ingenuity (pictured) mission on Mars after almost three years and seventy-two flights.
• The Ram Mandir, a temple to Rama, is consecrated at a disputed site in Ayodhya, India.
• Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's lunar module SLIM lands on the Moon.
• Protests break out in Bashkortostan, Russia, following the imprisonment of environmental activist Fail Alsynov.
• Iran launches missile strikes in Pakistan and aerial strikes in Iraq and Syria, and Pakistan responds with retaliatory airstrikes.

January 29

Mantra-Rock Dance poster

• 1814 – War of the Sixth Coalition: At the Battle of Brienne, both sides' commanders, Napoleon and Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, were nearly captured.
• 1967 – The Mantra-Rock Dance (poster pictured), called the "ultimate high" of the hippie era, took place in San Francisco, featuring Swami Bhaktivedanta, Janis Joplin, the Grateful Dead, and Allen Ginsberg.
• 1991 – The first major ground engagement of the Gulf War began with the Iraqi invasion of Khafji, Saudi Arabia, recaptured three days later by Coalition forces.
• 2013 – Twenty-one people died when SCAT Airlines Flight 760 crashed near Almaty, Kazakhstan.