News Roundups | Your LifeMost of us have been through a snowstorm or ten in our lifetimes, so this won’t be anything new, but just in case you’re new to this latest weather drama, our Twitter followers are throwing out lots of helpful tips, like this: Jim Vlock’s vision is fading, but he’s found some high-tech ways to get around it: “We had been spending all our time focusing on a possible cure — stem cells, laser treatments, injections — we were willing to …

News Roundups | Your Lifehttp://graphics8.nytimes.com/bcvideo/1.0/iframe/embed.html?videoId=1248069482199&playerType=embed (“Two New York City men feel a tremendous responsibility to respond properly when they mysteriously receive hundreds of letters addressed to Santa Claus at their Chelsea apartment.” Via the New York Times.) The sponsors of a Medicare fraud prevention bill hope to reintroduce it in 2011: “The bill would empower the Health and Human Services Department’s Office of Inspector General to bar executives from federal health programs if a company they worked for is convicted of fraud after the …

News Roundups | Your Life(If you’re in the office today, like us, this is for you: “Assembly and Repairs Dept. mechanic Mary Josephine Farley works on a Wright Whirlwind motor, Naval Air Base, Corpus Christi, Texas. 1942 August.” Via.) FYI, the state of Missouri has its missing moon rock back. Yep. Its missing moon rock. On growth in the 75+ work force: “”This phenomenon is going to build. This is just the first wave.” – John Rother, AARP’s EVP of policy. A song lyric, …

News Roundups | Your Life(“Hans Rosling’s famous lectures combine enormous quantities of public data with a sport’s commentator’s style to reveal the story of the world’s past, present and future development. Now he explores stats in a way he has never done before – using augmented reality animation. In this spectacular section of ‘The Joy of Stats’ he tells the story of the world in 200 countries over 200 years using 120,000 numbers – in just four minutes. Plotting life expectancy against income for …