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" Welcome to PM/AM, PopMech&amp;#039;s morning briefing on the top tech stories for today. What We&amp;#039;re Reading &amp;quot;World&amp;#039;s oldest cheese found on 3,600-year-old Chinese mummies made with &amp;#039;ancient technology&amp;#039;&amp;quot; - [via International Business Times] &amp;quot;Meteor spotted over midwest&amp;quot; - [via Weather.com] &amp;quot;Two Microsoft executives to leave company: report&amp;quot; - [via Reuters.com] What We&amp;#039;re Watching After almost 17 grueling days, it&amp;#039;s finally over. This weekend, 650,000 gamers worked together to beat a cooperative version of Pokemon Red, hosted by Twitch.tv. Read the full story about how this social experiment frustrated gamers, founded religions and reminded us that a small group of trolls can ruin everything, and then tune in to see what else is in store for Red, and the hundreds of thousands of players debating his every move. What We&amp;#039;re Thinking When it comes to energy conservation, Red States are looking pretty darn Green. Sheril Kirshenbaum recently crunched energy data for Scientific American and found that, while liberals are more ideologically invested in climate, conservatives are far more likely to actually unplug at home. We&amp;#039;re suckers for surprising political polls so last week, when the Washington Post reported that an embarrassing number of Democrats don&amp;#039;t know that the Earth revolves around the Sun, it was open season. Of course, the Post duly noted that most Republicans still deny evolution, but hey, at least they seem to have gotten Copernicus&amp;#039; memo. In sum, Republicans dispute where the Earth came from, but they aren&amp;#039;t half bad at conservation. On the other hand, Democrats love the Earth, but are a bit fuzzy on where exactly it&amp;#039;s located. Our sad, if not surprising, conclusion? Scientific ignorance is essentially bipartisan. What We&amp;#039;re Writing &amp;quot;The Hydrogen Car Is Back\u2014Again&amp;quot; - Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota are rolling out new hydrogen-fuel-cell vehicles for 2014. So are we finally at the dawn of the hydrogen age? Not so fast. &amp;quot;How a Simple Tree Branch Can Become a Backyard Water Filter&amp;quot; - MIT researchers test an inexpensive water filter fashioned from a pine tree branch, which may provide a low-tech solution to water treatment around the world. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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