Lo que ves en este vídeo ocurre una vez cada 80.000 nacimientos.
Un bebé que llega al mundo sin saber que ha nacido.
Todavía dentro de su bolsa amniótica. Intacta. Como si el tiempo se hubiera detenido.
Se llama nacimiento en caul o parto velado.
El bebé nace rodeado de líquido amniótico, con la bolsa intacta, tal y como estuvo en el útero.
Un ginecólogo con 40 años de experiencia lo ha visto solo dos o tres veces en su carrera.
La bolsa amniótica actúa como un amortiguador natural que protege al bebé de infecciones bacterianas y de la compresión del cordón umbilical durante el parto.
Es decir, ese bebé llega al mundo con una capa extra de protección que la mayoría nunca tendrá.
SAPS Celebrates Hillbrow Constable's PhD Achievement
A 30-year-old Nkandla-born police officer, Constable (Dr) Lindokuhle Ngcobo, stationed at SAPS Hillbrow in Johannesburg, is drawing attention for his rare combination of academic excellence and frontline policing.
Serving in the Crime Prevention Unit, Dr Ngcobo is involved in monitoring crime hotspots, responding to robbery incidents, tracking suspects, and supporting intelligence-driven operations within the South African Police Service (SAPS).
His academic record is extensive, holding a PhD in Policy and Development Studies, a Master of Social Science in Public Policy, Honours in Public Policy, and a Bachelor of Social Science from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
He completed his doctorate in 2025, focusing on the lived experiences of women with disabilities and policy responses during COVID-19 lockdown levels 5 to 3 in the City of Johannesburg.
Before joining the police service, he worked as a policy researcher at the Department of Community Safety, where he developed an interest in public safety and governance.
He later enrolled in the Basic Policing Development Learning Programme at the 3 SAI Kimberley Academy as part of Project 10 000’s 2022 intake, before formally joining SAPS.
Reflecting on his career shift, Ngcobo said policing offered him a direct way to engage with real-world social challenges such as inequality, gender-based violence, and youth crime, while contributing to safer communities.
He believes young officers with academic training can help modernise policing through research-driven approaches, digital innovation, and improved community engagement.
Dr Ngcobo has encouraged young people during Youth Month to consider careers in SAPS, saying it offers discipline, growth, and an opportunity to serve society meaningfully.
If this appears on your Timeline kindly Repost. We need to find this criminal! They robbed this lady in Nellmephius, Pretoria. South Africa is criminal! When he went out she was like "Dankie neh" and deep down that dankie means thank you for not killing me. 💔💔
Look down at your big toe. If it used to have hair on it and now it doesn't, blood is probably struggling to reach down that far. Doctors have used this as an early warning sign for decades, and the test that confirms it takes five minutes.
Hair grows because tiny blood vessels feed each follicle with oxygen and nutrients. When fatty deposits clog the arteries higher up your leg, blood barely makes it to your toes. The follicles starve and shut down. Hair falls out and stops coming back.
This is called peripheral artery disease, or PAD, and roughly 200 million people worldwide have it. Mayo Clinic, Johns Hopkins, and the UK's NHS all list bare feet and lower legs as a recognized warning sign. More than half of them feel completely normal in their legs. The hair on their toes is often the only thing giving the disease away.
Hair loss alone doesn't mean you have PAD. Sock friction, age, and hormones can thin foot hair on their own. Doctors look at the bigger picture: shiny tight skin on the calves, cold feet that won't warm up, cuts that take forever to heal, a weak pulse behind your ankle bone, slow-growing toenails. If a few of those signs are happening at once, the hair loss starts to mean something.
The same fatty buildup clogging your leg arteries usually clogs the ones feeding your heart and brain. People with PAD are roughly twice as likely to die of a heart attack or stroke over the next ten years as people without it. Even when they have zero leg symptoms. One long study followed silent PAD patients for a decade and found that only 3 out of every 5 were still alive at the end.
The test is called the Ankle-Brachial Index. A nurse takes your blood pressure at your ankle, then at your arm, and divides one by the other. If the ankle reading is much lower, blood is struggling to reach your feet. The cutoff doctors use is 0.9. Five minutes, doesn't hurt, costs almost nothing.
What turns this from "probably nothing" into "go get checked" is the usual cardiovascular crowd. Smoking, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, over 50. If a few of those describe you and your toes have gone smooth, ask your doctor for the ABI on your next visit. If they look puzzled, say "ankle blood pressure compared to arm blood pressure." They'll know.
Your toes give away clogged arteries before anything else for one reason. They're at the end of the line.
65 million years ago, something fell from the sky and wiped out the dinosaurs.
What if the asteroid wasn't an asteroid?
What if it was a spaceship and we're the aliens?
A Lamborghini Huracán is 46 inches tall at the roof. A modern pickup hood sits higher than that. The entire car fit below the driver's sight line.
Consumer Reports has been measuring this for years. Pickup hood heights grew 11% between 2000 and 2018. Truck weights grew 24% in the same window. The front blind zone on some trucks runs 11 feet longer than a sedan's and 7 feet longer than a typical SUV's. Before you add aftermarket lift or oversized tires.
The number that hits hardest: when Consumer Reports put a 5-foot-2 driver in a Ford F-150 and lined elementary school children in front of the bumper, it took 9 kids standing in a row before the driver could see the top of the first one's head. Nine children. A Huracán roof is lower than those heads.
IIHS measured the 2015 F-150's forward visibility and found drivers can see 36% of the 180-degree area within 10 meters of the front bumper. The remaining 64% is hood, mirrors, and A-pillars. 10 meters is the average stopping distance at 10 mph. Parking lot speed. Invisible.
744 children died in frontover crashes in the United States between 2016 and 2020. The geometry that put a Silverado on top of a Huracán is the same geometry.
The Lamborghini had an insurance policy.
🗣️ Jose Mourinho: "It used to be believed that whoever won the most was the best, but that's no longer the case. Now, whoever creates the most perceptions is the best.
There are coaches who try things that don't work and fail, but they say, 'I died with my idea.' If you die with your idea, you're stupid."
"I went to the Premier League in 2004, as the champion of Europe, and that year only two foreign coaches made it to the Premier League: me and the UEFA Cup winner, Rafa Benítez, who won with Valencia and went to Liverpool; I won with Porto and went to Chelsea.
Today, coaches whose names I don't even know go to the Premier League, and I don't say that without respect; it's true. Some coaches are chosen by datas, numbers, not by victories.
Perceptions are created, and today the idea is sold that, more important than winning, is playing like this, looking like this... at that level, things have changed radically."