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What if you were given a 1 million yuan check with no topic restrictions, and the freedom to travel anywhere with your team and meet people from around the world, where would you go? This time, our director Val takes that million and steps into a place that already sounds a little off 鈥 the casinos of Las Vegas.
What if you were given a 1 million yuan check with no topic restrictions, and the freedom to travel anywhere with your team and meet people from around the world, where would you go? This time, our director Val takes that million and steps into a place that already sounds a little off 鈥 the casinos of Las Vegas.
What if you were given a 1 million yuan check with no topic restrictions, and the freedom to travel anywhere with your team and meet people from around the world, where would you go? This time, our director Val takes that million and steps into a place that already sounds a little off 鈥 the casinos of Las Vegas.
鈥淭hese findings indicate that men who perceive the #tradwife movement favorably believe that they rely on women for intimacy and simultaneously resent that this is the case,鈥 Rachael Robnett, one of the report鈥檚 authors, told PsyPost. 鈥淭his mentality could put tradwives in a precarious position considering the amount of control鈥揵oth financial and otherwise鈥搕hat they yield to their husbands.鈥
A growing online trend encourages women to quit their jobs, run the home and defer to their husbands. This 鈥渢radwife鈥 movement urges a return to traditional roles and, when researchers in the US recently set out to examine what kind of men support it, they expected to find a cohort fond of old-fashioned chivalry. The reality, they say, was rather different.
A deep dive into the origins of the Make America Great Again movement.
The feminist scientific journal Psychology of Women Quarterly recently put out a whole issue centered entirely on the #tradwife phenomenon, and it is fascinating.

Mail-in ballots play a big role in Nevada elections. Taking a look at the general election in 2024, 45% of voters voted by mail. Now there is a big divide on whether this executive order will benefit the Silver State.
In his latest book A World Appears: A journey into consciousness, Pollan charts the work of scientists and philosophers, weaving in literary perspectives along the way. He spoke to New Scientist about the value of writing a book where you know less at the end than before you started.
Michael Pollan (A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness) is a science and environmental journalist. Michael returns to the Armchair Expert to discuss why choosing surrender is liberating in both psychedelics and life, what the 鈥渉ard problem鈥 of consciousness is and how we get to it, and how sentience serves homeostasis in living beings. Michael and Dax talk about asking what the world would be like without consciousness, the remarkable fact that plants can see, hear, and fight, and experimental evidence via the ginger test that disgust originates in the gut. Michael explains the qualitative redness of red, that there鈥檚 so much more going on in consciousness besides computation, and what strange places to visit our minds are.
A recent study published in Psychology of Women Quarterly suggests that young men who favor the internet subculture known as the tradwife movement tend to hold hostile and patronizing sexist attitudes. The findings provide evidence that the appeal of this lifestyle for men is rooted in a desire for traditional power dynamics rather than a simple preference for a stay-at-home partner.
Earlier this month, Wisconsin lawmakers passed a bill that would expand sports betting in the state by allowing people to make wagers online. Governor Tony Evers will soon have to decide whether to sign the bill into law. Evers has said his decision will hinge on whether the state's 11 tribes with gaming compacts can agree on how to offer online sports betting throughout Wisconsin. In the meantime, a multitude of questions still exist around what online sports betting could mean for Wisconsin.
