John Hopton

I am a freelance writer and author with many years of experience. I specialize in writing news articles, opinion pieces and blogs on the subjects of technology, health, science and travel. Recently, I have been focusing on copywriting and content marketing for clients including doctors, real estate professionals and tech companies. I have also written full website content and city guides for major international hotel chains. I have been published in Hemispheres, the in-flight magazine of United Airlines, with a piece on railways in Japan. Additionally, I have extensive experience in self-publishing, having edited books for authors in multiple genres.

MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences •

Why CubeSats are Cool | MIT Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences

Kerri Cahoy explains why CubeSats, miniature satellites, some smaller than a shoebox, are a game-changing satellite technology. CubeSats may not yet be widely known, but they are a game-changer in satellite technology. Remarkably, in the near future there will not only be many more people who have heard of them, but many more people who own them. It’s becoming much easier for anyone and everyone to play around in space. RedOrbit talked to MIT’s Kerri Cahoy who explained the exciting new techno
Redorbit •

Animal Planet filmmaker: Wildlife documentaries are often fabricated sensationalism

Wildlife documentaries are eye-opening and inspirational, but according to a new confessional from Chris Palmer, distinguished film producer now in residence at American University, the methods they use to evoke those responses in viewers go well beyond artistic license. How many of our favorite shows and networks have rented animals from game parks and zoos and passed them off as wild, used actors as fake scientists giving interviews, and mistreated animals in order to get ratings? RedOrbit sp
Genetic Literacy Project •

Evolution erasing our Neanderthal genes, rooting out harmful variants

Although the Neanderthals went extinct 30,000 years ago, their genes live on in human beings. A new study at the University of California, Davis, has found, however, that those strands of DNA are systematically being erased through natural selection. “On average, there has been weak but widespread selection against Neanderthal genes,” said Graham Coop, professor at the universit[y]s’ department of Evolution and Ecology. The selection may have come about as a consequence of a small number of Nea
Buddhist Channel •

Healing & Spirituality | The neuroscience behind Buddhist enlightenment

Home Healing & Spirituality San Francisco, CA (USA) -- To many non-believers, Buddhism is the "good" kind of religion, one that doesn't start wars and has powerful things to say on the mindfulness and mental self control we all seek by one method or another. RedOrbit spoke to Dr. Rick Hanson, psychologist, Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley, and New York Times best-selling author, to discuss the science of what was going on inside Buddha's brain, and how we migh

Following Football: One Man’s Journey Across the Football Planet eBook : Hopton, John: Amazon.co.uk: Books

“A hugely entertaining book with a major difference, John Hopton’s 'Following Football' charts an irresistible journey across the world, framed by a riot of fantastically animated football stories. For football fans and travel addicts alike, this is an unforgettable rollercoaster ride in a league of its own” - Steve Rudd, author of Pulse and Fifty States of Being "John's eye-opening journey has everything; hilarious and often cringe-worthy travel anecdotes together with football facts and fig