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Alex Gomberg, a fourth generation seltzer man, has opened a museum dedicated to the history of the famous fizzy water. The Brooklyn Seltzer Museum, which is in the Cypress Hills neighborhood near the border of Brooklyn and Queens, celebrates the long-lasting cultural importance of seltzer in New York City.

Located within the oldest seltzer works in New York City (a family run business now in its fourth generation), the Brooklyn Seltzer Museum celebrates the production of seltzer, the science of seltzer, its cultural importance, and the value of local, family-run businesses.

Food Vlogger Rob Martinez Visited the Museum

Artificial intelligence (AI) is having an unintended impact on a vital resource – water. As AI systems expand their reach, they demand colossal computing power housed in sprawling data centres.

These data centres, in turn, require vast quantities of water for cooling, adding to concerns about the environmental sustainability of AI growth.

Microsoft’s Soaring Water Consumption

In a shocking revelation, Microsoft, one of the tech industry’s biggest companies, consumed more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools worth of water in its data centres in the previous year alone.

This figure, as disclosed in Microsoft’s latest environmental report, has sent ripples of concern throughout the tech world. The numbers reflect a 34% increase in water consumption between 2021…

A post on Facebook shows two pictures of the sky: one of clouds with the caption “these are clouds”, and the other of several trails from planes, with the caption “these are chemtrails”. 

While it’s true that one of the images does show clouds, the other does not show “chemtrails”. It shows contrails, which consist of water vapour that freezes in the cold temperatures at high altitude forming long thin lines of cloud. 

Depending on the humidity and temperature of the air, the tiny ice crystals can either change directly from a solid to a gas (becoming invisible after a few minutes) or remain in the air as water or ice, which means they stay visible for several hours. 

Not all planes will produce contrails. Slight differences in flight altitude and the…