Things are not always what they seem at first glance.  Just a few days ago, a NASA space craft flew near Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, and discovered spider shaped evidence that past volcanic activity had occurred there.  This is a remarkable finding since it changes the way scientists have perceived the planet previously (thought only to be a cratery and rocky surface with little dynamism).  "We were continually surprised. It was not the planet we expected. It was not (like) the moon," said Sean Solomon of Carnegie Institution of Washington, the mission's lead investigator. "It's a very dynamic planet with an awful lot going on."

This was such a healthy reminder to me that one`s original impressions are sometimes mistaken and it is important to `circle around mysteries many times` to make new discoveries.  Social entrepreneurs are famous for discovering new ways to look at and address a social problem.    

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Switzerland has about 1800 glaciers and although at first glance they may appear magnificent, almost all of them are losing ground because of climate change.  If you would have circled around the Aletsch glacier, you might have been lucky enough (or unlucky depending on which view) to catch a glimpse of hundreds of naked bodies recently!  That’s right, this freezing cold striptease orchestrated by artist Spencer Tunick was a part of a Greenpeace campaign to raise awareness of global warming.  They wanted to "establish a symbolic relationship between the vulnerability of the melting glacier and the human body".  According to them, Alpine glaciers have lost about one-third of their length and half their volume over the past 150 years. The Aletsch ice mass has retreated by 115 metres in the last two years alone.