Did you waste this past weekend watching the NBA and NHL Playoffs, Kentucky Derby, NASCAR?  Give yourself a pat on the back for taking such good care of yourself. A new study in Japan found that watching sports boosts our mental health and generally makes us happier human beings. Researchers scanned people’s brains while they watched various sports and found it activated the “reward circuits” in their brain, which are linked to feelings of pleasure and happiness. They also found that people who regularly watch a lot of sports have more gray matter in those areas, which suggests it might even change your brain structure over time….. This could be big for the environment:  Researchers at U.C. San Diego invented a new type of “living plastic” with built-in bacteria that’s able to digest it.  It can be broken down in as little as five months……..And finally………….. 

A 100-year-old veteran in Maryland just got his college diploma.  He’s a former pilot named Jack Milton who served in World War Two, Korea, and Vietnam. He had enough credits to graduate from the University of Maryland in the mid-1960s before he left for Vietnam, but he never did.  The school surprised him with a diploma for his 100th birthday last week.