Welcome to the WGBH News Week in Review, where you can distract yourself from the $5 you lit on fire in the form of your steadily deteriorating March Madness bracket.

• Greater Boston turned its focus on gentrification, and reported on its impact in Jamaica Plain and Chinatown .

• Ibby Caputo attended Healthcare's Grand H@ckfest , where hackers made shoes for Parkinson's patients, facial recognition software to diagnose certain conditions, and more.

• The Curiosity Desk's Edgar B. Herwick III tracked down a rower who would have competed in the 1980 Olympics — if the U.S. hadn't boycotted.

• After the discovery this week of primordial gravitational waves, Herwick also delved into the unexpectedly Catholic origins of the Big Bang Theory. Meanwhile, The Forum Network's Alison Bruzek broke down that gravitational wave discovery that helped confirm the Big Bang Theory. Bruzek also recorded physicist and essayist Alan Lightman's talk at the Harvard Book Store , where he discussed, among other things, gravitational waves.

• Phillip Martin reported on lingering insurance problems Watertown homeowners are having as a result of the Boston Marathon bombing manhunt last April. He also reported on the pact 51 municipalities in Middlesex County signed allowing on-duty police officers to cross into other jurisdictions to carry out arrests and pursuits.

• On The Scrum, Adam Reilly, Peter Kadzis and David Bernstein broke down Scott Brown's run for U.S. Senate in New Hampshire, with Kadzis praising Bernstein's William F. Buckley-ian vocabulary game.

• Cristina Quinn reported on Watertown-based WiTricity , which wants to make plugging in your gadgets a thing of the past.

• State Sen. Linda Dorcena Forry, a Haitian American from Dorchester, " redeemed Southie’s gritty honor " Sunday in her turn as host of the St. Paddy's Day breakfast, according to to Peter Kadzis.

• Dan Kennedy analyzed the $563,000 libel verdict handed down agains the Boston Herald.

• At our On Campus blog, Kirk Carapezza reported on Harvard Business School unveiling its online education venture, HBX.

• Boston Globe Editor Brian McGrory told Boston Public about his interview with former Boston mayor Thomas Menino about his recent cancer diagnosis.

• Herwick, meanwhile, explained what that diagnosis, " cancer of unknown primary ," means.

That'll do it — have a good weekend.