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Science-on-Hudson event. Professor Gustaaf Brooijmans, Columbia University Sometimes it's the things we encounter the most that we understand the least. A case in point is matter. While our understanding of interactions is quite sophisticated, as evidenced by our prediction and discovery of the Higgs boson, the origin(s?) of the properties of matter remains shrouded in mystery. Not that we lack clues: if Hercule Poirot were a particle physicist he would have a field day (or maybe century). We discuss those clues, as well as questions we are asking to get the culprits to reveal themselves.