Jonathan W. Rosen
@jw_rosen
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Writer, reporter, traveler. Words at: @NatGeo, @nytimes, @techreview, @TheEconomist & others. Lecturer in global journalism at @TuftsUniversity
New England/East Africa
Joined October 2011
In one form or another, reducing greenhouse gas emissions will likely involve a spike in the use of hydrogen. #Namibia has big plans to supply the global market. But as I report for @techreview, it's a gamble.
technologyreview.com
Can the vast and sparsely populated African country translate its renewable power potential into national development?
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RT @longformprofile: Edition #76 features fantastic long reads from:. @MarkKriegel @JezewskaJ @brettmartin @ATCodinha @lucy_feldman @SamAug….
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RT @Longreads: "Kelvin Kiptum’s final run began at an abandoned fluorspar mine on the floor of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley.". @jw_rosen for @….
economist.com
Kelvin Kiptum had the world at his feet. Then it all ended in an instant
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This past summer, in my first story for @grist, I reported on the drink that, in some ways, fuels all my other writing. Coffee, it turns out, is highly vulnerable to the changing climate. But a movement is accelerating to make it more resilient:
grist.org
David Ngibuini is a second-generation coffee farmer in Kenya’s central highlands, an area of cool temperatures and rich volcanic soil that’s long been one of the best places to grow coffee on Earth....
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As athletics at #Paris2024 gets underway, it's a good time to share my recent @techreview feature on supershoes and their impact on the sport. With input from current Olympians, past world record holders, top coaches & exercise physiologists, etc.
technologyreview.com
Kenyan runners, like many others, are grappling with the impact of expensive, high-performance shoes.
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My story, reported from Mount Elgon, on @joshuacheptege1 and #Uganda's distance running renaissance:
nytimes.com
Led by a duo of world-record holders, athletes from Uganda’s Mount Elgon are challenging decades of Kenyan and Ethiopian dominance.
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Charges of neo-colonialism are coming from both sides of the debate over #EACOP and #Uganda's oil, especially after this week's @Europarl_EN resolution. My attempt to give this, and the project's threats, a bit of perspective:
nationalgeographic.com
The 900-mile pipeline would bring needed revenue to Uganda and Tanzania. But it would disrupt thousands of lives and key wildlife habitat—to say nothing of its climate impact.
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Henry Rono, track and field legend, experienced the pinnacle of sport and the depths of addiction. At 70, as I report from #Kenya, he has no regrets.
nytimes.com
Forty-four years ago, Henry Rono set multiple world records on the track. Much of his life was later overshadowed by addiction. But at 70, he has no regrets.
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My story in @techreview's May/June print issue looks at one consequence of #Kenya's hustler mentality colliding with its tech savviness: the unrelenting popularity of online sports betting.
technologyreview.com
In Kenya, and elsewhere in Africa, the rapid spread of smartphones and mobile money has come with a stubbornly persistent vice: online gambling.
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I took a deep dive for @techreview into a study that "punctures the myth" that covid-19 took it easy on Africa. My story from Lusaka:
technologyreview.com
One of the pandemic’s enduring mysteries is how much of Africa seemed to have been spared the worst. A study of corpses suggests it hasn’t.
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The green technologies needed to prevent climate catastrophe will require vast amounts of yet-to-be discovered metals. My story for @NatGeo from #Zambia on new techniques that could help find more of them.
nationalgeographic.com
Electrifying global vehicle fleets will require vast new troves of metals like cobalt and copper that may be tough to find without help from big data.
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Happy to contribute again to @techreview's annual list of young innovators; always fun to pick the brains of some of the most brilliant, forward-looking people out there.
technologyreview.com
The 35 Innovators Under 35 is our yearly opportunity to take a look at not just where technology is now, but where it’s going and who’s taking it there.
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"Wherever the United States government contemplated a wrong turn, Rumsfeld was there first with his hard smile—squinting, mocking the cautious, shoving his country deeper into a hole."
theatlantic.com
America’s worst secretary of defense never expressed a quiver of regret.
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#westernmass' own @ItsGabrielleT runs the fastest 200m in a generation. Looking forward to watching her represent the 413 in #tokyo.
21.61 seconds- best to ever do it behind FloJo. AND IM AN OLYMPIAN!!!!!!. So so so grateful to everybody-especially my coach. Sending love to everyone who has supported me up to this point and to my new supporters. ❤️🤞🏽 We’re just getting started.
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Seeing lots of #TanzaniaElections2020 coverage portraying Magufuli as an autocrat who's been good for the TZ economy. Most in Dar I spoke to for this story last year said economic uncertainty had risen significantly.
theatlantic.com
Tanzania’s president has put fighting corruption at the center of his agenda. But is it worth the suppression of civil liberties?
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RT @ianbremmer: After tonight, Republicans will have nominated 15 of the last 19 justices, despite having lost the popular vote in 6 of the….
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With Nagorno-Karabakh in the news, I figured it was time to dig up this vintage @juskalian travel story. An intimate portrait of the "mountainous black garden," that you still won't find on maps.
nytimes.com
On a spartan journey to the breakaway Caucasus region of Nagorno-Karabakh, the author finds ghost cities, mountain tableaus and strands of personal connection to the area.
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Eliud Kipchoge, the world's first sub-two-hour marathoner, is a product of one of #Kenya's most extraordinary communities. My story on his greatness, and his heritage, ahead of Sunday's @LondonMarathon.
nytimes.com
He is already the greatest marathoner ever, but Kipchoge, who competes in London on Sunday, has evolved into something of a Zen master as well. Where does that come from? Look to his heritage.
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