🇨🇩 Así se celebró la clasificación de RD Congo en el campo de refugiados de Musasa en Burundi.
Recordemos que muchísimos congoleños viven exiliados en campos por la guerra civil que asola al país en el este. Es sólo futbol, solo 11 tipos atrás de una pelotita... si, claro
Jürgen Klinsmann: “Había 70.000 personas, nosotros estábamos calentando seriamente. Mientras sonaba ‘Live Is Life’, Maradona empezó a hacer malabares con el balón. Dejamos de calentar, porque no había nada más que pudiéramos hacer aparte de mirarlo.” MAGIA!
No hay motor más fuerte que las ganas de salir adelante. 🇲🇽🔥
Vimos esta historia de @ yadirajauregui1 en TikTok y nos recordó el espíritu mexicano: aquí la gente no espera caminos fáciles… los construye.
Queremos hablar con él.😎🔥🏍️
Pilotos, ayúdennos a encontrarlo.
Researchers at the University of Bergen ran a study comparing 213 Sudanese men. Half brushed their teeth with a chewed tree root. Half used a regular plastic toothbrush. The tree root group came out with healthier gums and less plaque.
That stick is called a miswak. The WHO has been quietly recommending it since 1986. In 2011, scientists at Sweden’s Karolinska Institute finally cracked the chemistry.
The active ingredient is benzyl isothiocyanate, a natural plant defense compound from the same family of sulfur molecules that give cabbage and mustard their sharp bite. The compound punches through the outer wall of bacteria that cause gum disease. From there, it dismantles the chemistry that keeps the bacteria alive. The Karolinska team isolated it by running root extracts through a chemical analyzer that identifies individual molecules.
The stick comes from the Salvadora persica tree, which grows in dry parts of Africa, the Middle East, and India. Inside the wood you also find natural fluoride, a gentle abrasive called silica that polishes off plaque, sulfur compounds, and tannins that tighten gum tissue. A separate team at Sweden’s University of Gothenburg ran another trial. They soaked the sticks in a fluoride solution. The fluoride left in the test group’s saliva came out higher than what people got from regular fluoride toothpaste.
A more recent systematic review pulled together a stack of randomized trials. Miswak on its own controlled plaque about as well as a regular toothbrush. Used alongside the toothbrush, it actually beat brushing alone on both plaque and gum inflammation scores. The Princess Nourah University trial from 2024 complicates that. Over two weeks, the miswak group’s plaque held steady while the toothbrush group’s dropped further. And gums in the miswak group got noticeably worse for people who sawed at their teeth too hard. Aggressive horizontal scrubbing tears at the soft tissue along the gum line.
One stick costs under 10 cents in the regions where the tree grows, and a single twig lasts for weeks. In sub-Saharan Africa, herbal toothpastes built around miswak and neem (another bitter chewing-stick tree) made up over a quarter of toothpaste sales in 2023.
The honest caveat is that Western dental literature treats the miswak as an add-on rather than a replacement, mostly because reaching the back molars with a stick is awkward. Used correctly, with soft perpendicular brushing along the gum line and no aggressive sawing, it does what a toothbrush does and adds a low-grade antibiotic on top. For most of human dental history, this is what cleaning your teeth looked like.
Imagínate tener 16 años, debutas en la liga de Francia, tu playera no tiene tu nombre y a los 8 segundos de entrar anotas el gol para darle la clasificación a tu equipo para la Champions League.
Mezian Soares vivió el sueño de todos.
❌UNA VERDADERA LÁSTIMA QUE PONGAN DE PRETEXTO A LAS CONDICIONES METEOROLÓGICAS
❌Hasta el momento, NO HAY indicio de #OlaDeCalor para próximas semanas, las lluvias aumentarán gradualmente refrescando, y pensando que sí se genere, NO SE PUEDE ASEGURAR CON SEMANAS DE ANTICIPACIÓN
¿Por qué no hicieron eso en 2023 cuando tuvimos calor extraordinario y sequía grave que sí se tenía contemplado? La respuesta se cuenta sola 🤷🏻♂️