Headlines from July 8, 2015

“For most of the early decades of its existence, the extension of EU integration coincided with strong economic growth.”
Star stock Alibaba takes brunt of Chinese economic downturn, hits lowest price since IPO.
Hackers for FBI are hacked, showing they’re also retained by repressive regimes targeting journalists and activists.
The cookie-based internet clouds estimate web traffic, but the post-cookie internet might clarify things.
White House to triple public housing solar energy capacity.
Natural gas investments look rosy now, but forthcoming regulation will condemn them as they’ve condemned coal.
Denver’s marijuana growers are wreaking havoc on the city’s electric grid.
Innovative space-saving bubble wrap is way more cost-effective, but lacks a popular feature: no pops.
As if the town existed merely than to be taken. Life inside Budweiser’s Whatever, USA.
On whether copyright should protect translations that make articles available to those who can’t read the original.
Anxiously existential dream journal of an 18th-century sultan in the middle of war against Britain.
The other side of ISIS propaganda: bucolic depictions of a happy life in the caliphate.
“Microbes control the Earth…and maintain it in its current state by creating a global electron marketplace.”
Excessive rain brought West Texas relief—but also an invasive, toxic weed.
Screen time is good for children because adults will always be boring.
Punished children don’t all become criminals, though it’s a helpful step toward a life in crime.
El Bulli restaurateur Juli Soler dies at 66.
EGullet Q&A with El Bulli chef and mad scientist Ferran Adrià.
From 2010, Jay McInerney’s second-person saga about El Bulli, as it prepares to close forever.