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Small changes like switching from a hotline, where nobody will ever find out about your good deed, to a sign-up sheet where anyone who walks by can see your name.

Personal information that we would then manually hand draw on a postcard-size sheet of paper that we would every week send from London to New York, where I live, and from New York to London, where she lives.

The women said they would rather deliver on a floor than on a plastic sheet that smeared blood all over.

Janma, meaning "birth," contained a blood-absorbing sheet for the woman to give birth on, a surgical scalpel, a cord clamp, a bar of soap, a pair of gloves and the first cloth to wipe the baby clean.

At first glance, it looks to be a grandfather clock with a sheet thrown over it and a rope tied around the center.

There is no clock, there is no rope, and there is no sheet.

That's where the people auditioning are behind a sheet.

And this vendor suddenly approaches my window with a half-opened alphabet sheet.

I took a quick look at the alphabet sheet, and I thought of my daughter, how it would be nice to spread it on the floor and just play all over it with her while getting her to learn the alphabet.

When I had time to fully open the alphabet sheet and take a more detailed look at it, I knew I was not going to use that to teach my daughter.

Looking at the alphabet sheet reminded me of the fact that not much has changed in the education curricula in Africa.

Some decades back, I was taught out of a similar alphabet sheet.

And so, introducing education to this child with an alphabet sheet like this fulfills one of the major functions of education, which is to introduce the learner to an appreciation of the learner's environment and a curiosity to explore more in order to add value.

This is because the water droplet's surface is like an elastic sheet.

Well, here we are on a repurposed Air Force cargo plane operated by NASA flying over the Greenland ice sheet.

What the Wikipedia articles didn't tell me is that there's liquid water hidden inside the ice sheet, because we didn't know that yet.

I did learn on Wikipedia that the Greenland ice sheet is huge, the size of Mexico, and its ice from top to bottom is two miles thick.

For instance, we have observations of the size of the Greenland ice sheet every month going back to 2002.

You can see that some areas of the ice sheet melt or lose ice in the summer.

We never thought that an ice sheet could lose mass into the ocean this quickly.

Since these measurements began in 2002, the ice sheet has lost so much ice that if that water were piled up on our smallest continent, it would drown Australia knee-deep.

Hidden under the ice sheet are channels the size of the Grand Canyon that funnel ice and water off of Greenland and into the ocean.

Here, she's used a pump to bring some of that water back to the ice sheet's surface.

So the water can stay hidden in the ice sheet in liquid form year after year.

Well, we recently discovered that there are cracks available in the Greenland ice sheet near this glacier aquifer.

You can fly over most of the Greenland ice sheet and see nothing, no cracks, no features on the surface, but as this helicopter flies towards the coast, the path that water would take on its quest to flow downhill, one crack appears, then another and another.

In our case, it is, and the aquifer water drives the crevasse all the way to the base of the ice sheet a thousand meters below.

There tends to be water at the base of the ice sheet here.

Now that we know the aquifer water is getting to the base of the ice sheet, the next question is: Is it making the ice itself flow faster into the ocean?

We're trying to uncover these mysteries hidden inside the Greenland ice sheet so that we can better plan for the sea level rise it holds.

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