Our special guests for this episode were Andre Tinoco Mendes, Steven Goldfard, Achintya Rao from CERN. We talked about why the work at the world’s leading collaborative council for nuclear research makes a difference in the world, paid our respects to the recently passed Vera Rubin, noted some of the successes of 2016, and they gave a nod to the work that others are doing around the world they found inspiring.