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.
• 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.