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'Skylanders' learns what Amiibo knew all along: Drop the portal
Nintendo Switch's NFC controllers forced 'Skylanders' to grow up
Sean Buckley, @seaniccus
The paradigm for toys-to-life games is well-established: one part kid-friendly video game, one part expensive, collectible figurines -- and a tethered NFC "portal" that ties them together. When Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure introduced this model in 2011, it sparked a new genre in gaming -- bringing about the rise and fall of Disney Infinity, the nostalgic brand licensing of LEGO Dimensions and even inspired Nintendo to launch its own line of NFC gaming collectibles. In fact, with the exception of Nintendo, all of these brands followed Skylanders' tethered-portal model. On the Nintendo Switch, however, the game that started it all is taking the Amiibo approach.
If you buy Skylanders Imaginators on the Nintendo Switch, it won't come with the series' iconic "Portal of Power" peripheral. Instead, the game piggybacks off the NFC technology Nintendo built into the console's controllers. Rather than placing characters on a wired base to transmit figurine data into the game, players merely need to tap their Skylander toys against the thumbstick on the right-hand Joy-Con. That's it. No more setting up a USB peripheral every time you want to play the game or making sure it's in reach of the couch. Instead, you just tap and play. Easy.
Although this is a simple, straightforward change that seems like a long overdue evolution of the toys-to-life experience, it wasn't really something that could be done until now. Not because the technology didn't exist, but because it wasn't available on most platforms. Neither the Xbox One or PlayStation 4 have built-in NFC readers, and only one of the Wii U's controllers (the included GamePad) supported the feature. The Switch is the first console to standardize NFC communication in every controller configuration. Finding another way to scan in the Skylanders toys was also necessary to serve players who use the Switch in portable mode.
While it's certainly easier to play Skylanders without the cumbersome portal accessory, its absence fundamentally changes the game into a more traditional experience. Changing characters in Skylanders typically meant placing a figure on the portal and leaving it there -- but after you scan a character into the Nintendo Switch version of the game, you don't even need the figure anymore. Scanning a toy more than once turns it into an "Instant Skylander" that can be summoned from the game's menu at any time. This is perfect for players who want to take the game on the go without toting a bunch of toys, but it calls the entire concept of the series into question. If you can scan your figures once and play the game without them, does Skylanders even need a toy component?
Technically, the game could get away without the physical toys, although that's not the point. For Skylanders (and other toys-to-life) fans, collecting is part of the fun, and the developer isn't offering any toy-free options at this time. The portal-free approach doesn't work for all toys-to-life games, either -- LEGO Dimensions features several puzzles that require players to move toys to different portions of its connected figure base, a gameplay element that wouldn't work with the Nintendo Switch's single NFC touchpoint.
Still, for Skylanders Imaginators, the change feels like a massive improvement, and a lot like the Amiibo system it's piggybacking off. By making the figures a little less necessary, Skylanders on Switch now comes close to mirroring Nintendo's toy-optional approach to the genre. It's a less tedious experience. It's still probably not the future of the Skylanders franchise, though.There are far too many figures and portals left over from previous games to expect Activision to nix the conceit of the series on other platforms. But if you're looking for a more minimalist toys-to-life experience, it can be had on the Nintendo Switch.
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Were you aware that 79% of internet users based in the United States are on Facebook? Additionally, over 56% of adults spend their online time using more than one social platform. What does that mean for someone hoping to attract online business? It means that a large portion of your prospective customers are spending their time on social media.
Because your potential customers are already hanging out on social platforms, then common sense dictates that you need to find a way to reach them on the social sites they are currently utilizing. This is what makes Social Media Marketing such a special opportunity for attracting new business. It offers you the opportunity to expand your visibility and cultivate a relationship with an audience that may not have the chance to be aware of the value you offer in any other fashion.
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Not only can you target new users on social media, but it can also assist in the cultivation of current and existing relationships. Because it takes the typical person between 8 and 13 times of viewing your offer before deciding that they want to purchase, it is vital to be present in front your audience as much as possible, allowing you to build a lasting relationship. Social marketing offers a robust experience for the user in multiple ways but, from a business owner's perspective, social media is an integral tool in the relationship building process.
Always keep in mind, there is a ton of other people vying for the same target audience's attention. This means that you cannot just pop in and tell people that they are missing out if they are not purchasing your product or service. It is vital that you have an attractive and compelling offer that, is not only delivering value to the lives of your potential buyers but one that grabs people's attention and encourages them to act.
Social marketing is a very important marketing tool because of the fact that your potential customers are already there. Consider the fact that your competition has long since realized this fact and they are already – and have long been – in the process of utilizing social strategies to develop and cultivate the growth of their online audience. If you are not doing the same, you will find yourself further behind than you already are. And, once you have an effective social media presence, it is imperative that you are providing an offer that is more attractive than the competition.
After you've found the balance between creating a compelling offer and then delivering the offer with an effective message, you can truly experience the value that SMM can bring to your business. Social media is perhaps the best way to drive targeted traffic to your website and then convert that traffic into more sales. The traffic that is being driven by your social campaign is often quite familiar with you even before they visit your website, therefore enhancing the probability that they will become customers. Through the growth and development of a social presence, you can increase the credibility of your brand and establish social proof with your audience.
A variety of different social media platforms exist today. Each social media platform works differently, and offer different amounts of marketing value for business owners utilizing them. Some platforms are image-based, while others may be video-based or even blog-centric. But, no matter the content, they all work on the same principles. People tend to be attracted to social settings and hope to interact, share, and interact with other users. Social sites fill this need in a spectacular fashion. For a business owner, there could not be a more fertile ground to plant the seeds of conversation and build and grow relationships with your target audience.
Human nature dictates that people prefer to purchase from those they know, like, and trust. Social marketing affords a special situation for your intended audience to become familiar with your business. Once they have the opportunity to experience who you are and the value that you offer, there is a better chance they may start to like, and even trust, your company. Once this happens, there is a far better chance that they will purchase from you as opposed to your competition. In addition to that initial purchase, if you are savvy enough to continue the relationship, you could be fortunate enough to have a returning customer for life.
Your primary focus during your presence on social networks should be relationship building. This could vary a bit from niche to niche, but the fundamentals of developing relationships are the same. It starts with a conversation and returning that communication in thoughtful, and interesting ways build trust.
If you have already taken the steps to generate an attractive and compelling offer, and it is set up efficiently and appropriately on your website, then when your social efforts begin to bring visitors to your site your sales have the potential to increase very quickly. Because there is such a huge market of people already investing their time on their favorite social media platform, you have a built-in pool of potentially highly targeted traffic. Additionally, the traffic you tend to receive from SMM is can often be free. This is an additional way to generate targeted organic traffic that can quite profitable when done properly.
If you make the effort to apply your marketing thesis to your social campaigns efficiently, you have the ability to generate additional business growth by producing additional targeted traffic that you otherwise would not have had the opportunity to experience. With skill, you can establish your business across multiple social platforms.
For example, take into consideration a video that we created for Montana Fire Pits. This video alone has generated over 85,000 views. That translates to an additional 85,000 potential buyers who can now say they are familiar with who Montana Fire Pits is. All because of ONE viral video that we helped them to create! With the application of our Digital Activation Marketing System, Montana Fire Pits has seen a consistent flow of new traffic that then converts to sales over time.
After you've developed your engineered and optimized offer and messaging geared towards conversion, it is only a matter of generating more traffic and offering your prospective buyers the opportunity to experience what it is you are offering. Social media is an exceptional way to do that. It provides a huge base of highly-targetable users who are available to see what you have.
Consistently, this can permit you to develop relationships with your audience that is vital to making more sales. It is a central component of a successful marketing strategy – but it will not work by itself. You will need to incorporate effective messaging and properly follow up to convert the new traffic into sales.


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UK Homeopathy Regulation
A blog about regulation of homeopathy and homeopathic remedies in the UK
Society of Homeopaths - Withdraw from Accreditation scheme?
The Society of Homeopaths' (SoH) ongoing problems with anti-vaccination make it difficult to continue with Professional Standards Authority (PSA) Accreditation. The SoH seems unwilling and/or incapable of dealing with it. Anti-vaccination beliefs are endemic among homeopaths and long established.
Anti-vaccination beliefs among SoH members has caused the PSA to come under pressure from NHS England (NHSE) and others to remove the Accreditation of the SoH. That pressure is not going to go away nor is the media reporting.
The SoH has very reluctantly moved towards a prohibition on its members saying anything on the matter of vaccination. It still hasn't managed this. Whilst the SoH can police its members' public pronouncements, it is resource intensive. It isn't possible to police what is said face to face to parents of children, what goes on in closed groups. Whatever the SoH does, those anti-vaccination beliefs are not going away in a hurry.
Anti-vaccination isn't the only problem. It is currently the most visible but there are others that have the potential to cause the SoH even more headache.
The SoH is in a difficult position because if acts strongly, it loses members. It may be better off withdrawing from the Accredited Registers scheme.
The Accreditation process and its timings have been discussed multiple times on this blog. In short, the SoH need to indicate in Month 8 that they intend to carry on with Accreditation. That would be 10/09/2020 to 09/10/2020. Things don't always happen precisely on time re the Accreditation process. COVID-19 might have an impact.
The SoH likely have a Board meeting in September if dates of past board meetings are anything to go by. It really needs to make the decision whether to carry on with Accreditation or not in that meeting.
Although the SoH may tell its members of its decision shortly after the meeting, the first that the public will know is when and if the PSA invites stakeholders to "Share Your Experience". The last round of that was a painful experience for the SoH.
There are various factors that the SoH need to take into account in making their decision but the most important are:-
Can it can retain Accreditation in 2021?
What actions would it have to take to retain Accreditation?
How many members would it lose as a result?
It also needs to consider 2022. There's little point in retaining Accreditation in 2021 if it loses it in 2022, especially if it causes significant loss of members.
What it needs to do to retain Accreditation will be discussed in a future post.
Benefits of withdrawal
There could be cost savings beyond the £10k+ renewal fee for Accreditation. It is suspected that the SoH has a CEO is due to Accreditation. The role is understood to be quite part time but even so it probably pays more than £24k a year. The SoH managed with a CEO for many years and probably can do so again.
The SoH could immediately dump all the difficult and resource intensive tasks that the PSA has imposed on it. It can stop auditing member websites, it can stop ringing up members to persuade them to comply with its Position statements etc. It could stop dealing with what it regards as "vexatious complaints". It almost certainly doesn't enjoy dealing with concerns raised by critics but PSA Accreditation forces it to.
They might be able to retain members who are currently thinking of leaving because of increasing regulation. It might also be able to tempt some who have left back.
Resources and money free up could be used to retain/recruit members. They could be used to promote the SoH and its members.
Withdrawal would be humiliating but less humiliating than the PSA removing Accreditation. It is virtually guaranteed to generate media headlines in a way that voluntary withdrawal might not. It would be depicted as a massive failure on the part of the SoH. Its pretensions of professionalism exposed as such. A triumph for reason, common sense and so forth. It might well provide positive publicity for the PSA, being seen to do the right thing.
Removal would hurt the Board, past and present. Anyone particularly associated with Accreditation could be hurt more. It seems unlikely that the Board would collectively accept responsibility. Finger pointing is likely to go on.
Back to the Good/Bad Old Days?
Whilst the SoH could roll back some of the changes it's had to make, it would be very foolish to roll back others. Allowing members to practice CEASE therapy again would be a really bad move (although arguably it does as long they call it Homeopathic Detox Therapy). It would be a provocation to say the least.
What it does with anti-vaccination is another matter.
Of course, the SoH could maintain its current position statements and simply not enforce them, which is what it used to do.
Managing the Media
One strategy might be to withdraw and issue a clear statement. Something the lines of -
The supposed benefits of Accreditation have not materialised
It costs money that could be more usefully employed on other things
It diverts resourses from the core activities of the SoH
Members (and their clients) do not value Accreditation
Accreditation has placed unacceptable restrictions on what members can say and do
The SoH need to avoid attempting to put the blame on others for their withdrawal. The decision has to look like one made in its and its members best interests rather than the result of external pressures.
Playing the victim is not a good idea. It looks weak and the SoH has brought a lot of its problems on itself, largely due to inaction or half-hearted action. It's also very easy to pick apart. Invoking conspiracy theories looks silly at best, deluded at worst.
Making an announcement when a lot is going on news-wise might mean that it never makes it into the media. Whilst withdrawal might cause a lot of excitement among critics, they have a limited audience.
The SoH doesn't have to justify itself to the media. It can make its statement and not engage further. The SoH's key audiences are its members, prospective members and their (potential) clients.
Negative Media coverage
This isn't going to go away but the SoH will become less of a media target in terms of no longer having special status. It may attract greater attention than some of the other UK homeopathy associations because it is the largest but on the other hand, individual homeopaths who belong to the Alliance of Registered Homeopaths (ARH) or no association at all tend to gain more media attention because they are often more extreme in their beliefs.
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"Rain, rain, go away!" 16 things to do in Israel on a wet, rainy day
Don't let the stormy season rain on your parade. These rainy day activities will have you wishing for wet weather
Time Out Israel Writers
It's raining, it's pouring...and no one is swarming to the beaches in Israel. When the wet season storms into town, there's nothing like curling up in a cozy café or catching an international film at the Cinematheque to hit that sweet spot. Just because the masses aren't at the beaches in Tel Aviv or floating in the Dead Sea, doesn't mean there aren't plenty of indoor things to do in Israel, and some are even free. Whether you opt for a romantic dinner in your Jerusalem hotel to avoid stepping outside or spend the day at one of the quirkiest museums in Israel, don't let the wet weather rain on your parade. Embrace the opportunity to try something new with our extensive list of rainy day activities – from movies to munchies.
16 rainy day things to do in Israel
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1. Stargaze at the Planetarium
Tel Aviv - Jaffa
The Eretz Israel Museum is more than a series of exhibits exploring the history and culture of Israel. Inside the multidisciplinary museum sits a magical place that is literally "out of this world." At the Planetarium you can sneak a peek at the stars the same way that Galileo did through his telescope. Watch a riveting presentation about the mysterious galaxies that exist all the while spinning in revolving seats or learn about Israel's first ever astronaut, Ilan Ramon, and view real time pictures of outer space provided by NASA. The Planetarium is a great place to bring your children and also expand your adult minds to the boundless worlds of science. English presentations are available by reservation.
2. Hide inside a cozy café
It's a not-so-white-winter in the White City. On a good day, that means crisp air, sunshine and a light scarf for comfort. On a bad day, it means gloomy skies, dreary rain and wild winds that make you want to bundle up in blankets and never leave bed. But sometimes, this grim weather calls for a pick-me-up: a cozy night out with friends at a restaurant with comfy vibes and heartwarming food. Here's our guide to eating out in Tel Aviv on a cozy, rainy night.
3. Get a little quirky at these art galleries and museums
While tourists flock towards the iconic Tel Aviv Museum of Art or The Israel Museum in Jerusalem to cross off their 'Israeli culture' checklist, the true hidden beauty lies in Israel's more quirky museums and Israeli art galleries off the beaten path. Just outside of Tel Aviv, the quaint city of Holon houses some unique museums that feature everything out-of-the-ordinary from Israeli fashion design to cartoons and children's games. Inside the cultural capital, Florentine's hipster haven opened Tel Aviv's very first street art gallery. And, up by Mount Carmel, the Ein Hod Artists' Village has the works of Marcel Janco, one of the founding fathers of Dadaism, up on display. These museums in Israel are worth a visit, especially if you're looking for a change of pace from giant crowds and long lines.
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4. Munch your way through Rothschild Allenby Market
A new trend started in 2015, with the opening of the Sarona Market, where Tel Aviv welcomed its modern-day Israeli market renaissance and a new perspective at how much food culture can change overnight. Suddenly, dining at endless street food eateries by local chefs became popular, hard-to-find ingredients became readily available and places opened on weekends—yes, even on Shabbat! Now, fresh produce and exciting culinary offerings are available all the time. Shuk Tsafon, North Tel Aviv's intimate market, opened last year, and the newest shuk on the block is the Rothschild Allenby market, sprawling over 1, 250 meters and housing 32 shops and eateries. Situated on one of the most walkable streets in the city in the middle of everything with offices and businesses a-plenty, the newest shuk treats Telavivians and city visitors to food from around the world with everything from South African curries to ramen. There are lots of little seating areas, an area for evolving pop-ups and events and a spacious sidewalk café with ready-made food to go. This eatery-busy market has so much on the menu. Here are some of our picks.
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5. Boulder at The Bloc – Climbing Center
Jerusalem City Center
Looking for something fun to do with the kids after school? The Bloc Climbing Center is the perfect spot for indoor climbing and bouldering in Jerusalem! The Bloc team believes that recreational climbing should be accessible to everyone, young and old. The gym features 300 square feet of climbing walls, with tracks changing weekly in order to keep each visit exciting and challenging. Thick mattresses placed under the walls keep climbers safe, allowing them to develop their skills. Grab a coffee and relax while the kids climb at The Bloc's small café. Suitable for ages three and up.
6. Try to escape these Escape Rooms
While Tel Aviv's nightlife guarantees a good party and Jerusalem has its fair share of fun bars, sometimes, we could all use a break from the booze. That's where escape rooms come in. The escape room fad in Israel is growing in popularity as families, friends and coworkers are taking their stab at cracking the code on difficult scenarios and working together to escape themed rooms within the allotted timeframe. From scary murder-themed rooms to family-friendly chocolate factories, these ten escape rooms offer fun options for every escapee. Can you beat the clock and get out alive? Or will you be trapped inside for all of eternity?
7. Catch the newest Hollywood flick at Cinema City
Cinema City is the largest entertainment complex in Jerusalem. Once you're done shopping at its variety of restaurants, cafes and clothing stores, head over to the movie theater and check out its unbeatable VIP experience.
8. Share a warm meal with a friend
On a rainy day, instead of sharing your misery, share a meal with your loved ones to scare those rainy day blues away. Why not get in the happy spirit and share a meal with your friends and family at one of these five family-style spots:
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Our top five Belize volunteering holidays. Helping Dreamers Do.
Belize volunteering holidays tend to zoom in on reefs, ocean or rainforest. You just have to decide whether you'd rather help campaign for lionfish to be put on hotel menus or count manatees in the mangroves of the Maya Mountains. Here are our top five volunteering holidays in Belize.
Our best volunteering holidays in Belize have a few things in common: they use your holiday time to give back to the destination you're in. Some of them offer you the chance to share your skills, perhaps a PADI in scuba diving or a degree in marine biology. Others will be happy for your time, enthusiasm and willingness to learn about Belize and its current conservation campaigns. Some are a holiday with a bit of volunteering, while others involve volunteering full time. Read our top five Belize volunteering holidays to discover some of the best projects out there.
While the coast hogs most of the limelight in Belize, the Maya Mountains quietly lay out jaguar jungles and manatee rivers in the southwest. But it's not escaped everyone's attention. Cattle farming, short-sighted fishing practices, the illegal pet trade and wildfires are real threats here. That means the ways you can lend a hand are varied, from monitoring camera traps and building boardwalks to spreading the conservation word in schools.
Want to perfect your back roll? Fancy more finesse on your frog kicks? Many marine conservation programmes combine monitoring whale sharks and controlling lionfish populations with earning your PADI Open Water or Divemaster Rescue. You'll join a crack conservation team on their day-to-day tasks, such as studying commercial catches of lobster and queen conch. These trips are often tailored to which diving certificates you'd like to earn.
This is one cull we can get behind. The Indian Ocean lionfish was accidentally introduced to the Caribbean, flourished, and has been chomping its way through the unarmed indigenous fish ever since. Give native fish a fighting chance by helping marine conservationists catch these prickly predators. After dissecting the fish to study its stomach contents, you'll have it for dinner. Lionfish fingers, anyone?
With good visibility and few strong currents, reef conservation is a good pick for newbie divers. You'll learn on the job, surveying the butterfly fish, hawksbill turtles, moray eels and manta rays that mingle around the reefs. Plus, you might get to mooch with whale sharks and catch bioluminescent light shows. The data you gather will help conservationists campaign government agencies for preservation zones.
Ever wondered if you're cut out for life as a marine conservationist? Then an internship in Belize could be for you. Instead of a mere brief overview, you'll spend a month or four in the shoes of a Belizean ecologist. Expect in-depth studies, learn specialised diving skills and get your head around the local and social politics of overfishing and reef tourism.


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A Kitty's dream.. wake up! Explore the vast expanse of the dream world within dreams.
You play as young Baku, a dream eater. Navigate your way around a house at midnight to find dreams and try not to make too much noise and get caught!
Isometric 3D terraformer action puzzle maze.
An exploration of the unconscious.
Point and click game created for the nitromejam, a 5 day jam about making quick games in the spirit of Nitrome with theme dreams.
Nite nite, sleep tight, don't let the spiders bite. Nor should you swallow them. Or feathers. Or midges. Especially not plasters.
Aim for a high score by avoiding Rockitty's Nightmares and help him get a good nights sleep. Good luck MEOW!
Avoid enemies in nightmare mode! Catch fluffies in dream!
Little Mel is trapped in a dream about his favorite video game. Take over the enemies and transform to use their powers to help find little Mel's missing game cartridge.
Complete the 10 level platform game made for nitrome jam contest!
Collect enough Z's to open up the exit door in each level. Use you ability to create clones to overcome a variety of different obstacles.


Intersurgical Ltd designs and manufactures respiratory products that are used in hospitals throughout the world. In an industry demanding the highest levels of quality control, engineers at its Wokingham headquarters develop special purpose machinery and production techniques for manufacturing facilities located throughout, Europe, Asia and the Americas.
When a coil-winding process for breathing tube heating filaments required optimisation, Intersurgical came to us to devise a customised solution.
The flexible plastic breathing tube is an integral component for Intersurgical's patient airway respiratory systems that are used in the operating theatre and for intensive care.
As part of the airway management process, active or passive humidification is introduced to the air or gas mixture to ensure it is delivered at the correct moisture levels. Any resulting condensation is prevented from forming within the tube by electrically heating the spirally coiled filament which, depending upon the product, is wrapped as a single or dual coil around its outer or inner diameter.
With the breathing tubes, that measure up to 22 mm diameter and 1.8 metres in length, the wound pitch of the filament is a critical factor in the respiratory system performance and this new machine has a dual role to develop an improved, more consistent winding procedure and to increase production throughput.
The basic construction is similar to a lathe; with a three-jaw chuck driving a long 6.0 mm diameter mandrel around which the coil is formed and a 2-metre travel linear axis delivering the filament material at variable rations of rotation to linear movement.
The linear traversing axis includes a carriage with a mounted sliding support fixture for the free end of the mandrel and a manual wire tensioning device.
A simple stepper motor control system takes care of the synchronisation between the two axes to maintain the correct pitch for the wound coil and the ratio is adjustable externally by an operator to match different products and filament types. After satisfactory winding, a current is passed through the malleable coil material which effectively hardens and sets its dimensional characteristics before assembly within the flexible plastic tube in another process.
Rather than use proprietary positioning stages which would over-engineer and make the solution much more expensive, we used linear motion guide bearings and a stepper motor driven belt drive for the linear axis with a stepper motor fixed to a standard three-jaw chuck for the rotary axis.
The two-axis positioning assembly is integrally mounted into a composite plastic table-top that provides a very clean, durable and cost-effective assembly area. The table top, together with a control cabinet is mounted on an extruded aluminium framing system from MiniTec profile system range for a neat and attractive support solution.
The complete positioning assembly more than provides the accuracy, speed and performance required and matched the customer's budget.


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Insights into interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in India and Brazil
By Marcel Bursztyn and Seema Purushothaman
1. Marcel Bursztyn (biography)
2. Seema Purushothaman (biography)
How are interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity faring in India and Brazil? How do they differ from interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in the Global North? Are there particular lessons to be drawn from India and Brazil for the global interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary communities?
India and Brazil are among the most prominent countries of the Global South in the worldwide academic scene. Both have problems in common, but they have also singularities.
The focus in both countries at the institutional level tends to be on what is referred to as interdisciplinarity. The emergence of a new generation of liberal universities and other academic institutions open to interdisciplinary scholarship has allowed a small cohort of interdisciplinary scholars to emerge. In fact many young universities in India and Brazil welcome faculty members who have crossed several disciplinary borders or been trained in interdisciplinarity. These institutions tend to offer more interdisciplinary degree programmes and support problem-oriented research, at scales appropriate to their functioning, as compared to most older institutions.
In such new universities, faculty members from various backgrounds are allocated in activities around different teaching programmes or courses. As a consequence, students interact more and research is more integrated across disciplines and actors.
Moving to research, from a conceptual point of view, the way interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary practices are being implemented and are growing among researchers in India and Brazil does not differ from the experiences in the North.
However, from a Global South perspective, the role and diversity of grassroots stakeholders as active partners in the processes are distinct from the North. Several categories of actors have been historically marginalised from public decisions and from the making of science, even in the search for solutions to the problems they are experiencing. This limitation is the case for small-scale farmers and fisher people, Indigenous populations, slum dwellers and street vendors, among others. Even when their problems are somehow addressed, they remain passive beneficiaries.
Increasingly, transdisciplinarity aims to provide a fertile space to bring functional, collaborative and creative roles to bloom while searching for solutions.
For example, in an action research project on agrarian adaptive skilling in central India, interactions with communities (from conceptualising the problem to designing and planning a collective response) are conceived in meetings of the whole project team including a study circle formed by local villagers. However, implementation of these interactions are designed and led by practitioners from a development non-governmental organisation (NGO). When it comes to setting up and designing agricultural experiments in farmers' fields, leadership comes from agricultural and social scientists in the team but, again, hands-on modalities of treatments and replications of experiments, as well as eliciting indicators that the community can perceive, are led by the practitioner team. This relationship involves negotiations and compromises in conventional processes of experimental and statistical designs.
Climate-change processes and prospects highlight the relevance of transdisciplinary practices in bringing together researchers, political decision makers and traditional communities.
When we consider traditional populations (especially Indigenous, riverside dwellers, peasants) we must also consider that they are usually guided by decisions based on their culture, grounded in their social practices over many generations. Over time, they have developed a world view and understood manifestations of nature and how to respond accordingly.
However, current rapid changes (such as extreme events) are accentuating a mismatch between culture and praxis. In addition, these developments tend to lead to misperceptions that, in turn, can lead to misadaptations. When strategies for adaptation do not correspond to a real-world situation and its trends, serious damage to the well-being of these populations (economic losses, health problems, social maladjustments) are likely to occur. A collaboration of researchers with local communities, and with formulators and operators of public policies, in processes of sharing information and co-construction of solutions, tends to minimise the risk of wrong decisions.
A concrete example from Brazil illustrates this point. The pattern of hydrological dynamics in the Amazon River basin has been changing rapidly in recent years, due to an intense process of deforestation and climate change in general. For many generations, riverside communities on floodplains developed an adaptive culture, usually building their houses on stilts and using a scheme for lifting the floor (maromba) according to the level of the annual floods. However, frequent and extreme hydrological events are disrupting those traditional adaptation strategies. In many cases, the strategies of local dwellers are not enough to cope with extremely high water levels. Science plays a crucial role in informing about the need for new adaptive schemes. Interactions of researchers and riverine populations are also enhancing experiences by moving traditional houses built on stilts to higher parts of the riverbanks, or even building new floating houses.
Ultimately, we call for inter- and trans- disciplinary institutions working with the poor. Universities in the Global South need to become citizen-inclusive interdisciplinary–transdisciplinary hubs engaged in problem-solving. This requires an alternative schema for scoring and ranking academic institutions, producing visible and immediate impacts acknowledged by local communities. Institutions need to be involved in identifying and establishing locally embedded and owned solutions to address community problems, for example facilitating equitable access to available fresh water in a neighbourhood rather than providing more resource-intensive large-scale water supply systems.
It also requires doing more with less, which in turn requires uniform accessibility to solution seekers and providers among local communities, and to interdisciplinary knowledge generators engaged in the problems local communities face and related challenges.
In contrast to high rankings in well-funded scientific-technological knowledge institutions, these universities will also require greater investment in bringing together human resources with strengths necessary for in situ problem-solving. Their openness to integration across classes, cultures, skill sets and genders will help them host students and resource persons from both the Global and the Local South, including relatively marginalised communities within the Global South.
What do you think? Do these ideas strike a chord? Do the same lessons apply in the Global North?
To find out more:
Bursztyn, M. and Purushothaman, S. (2022) Interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary scholarship for a civilisation in distress: Questions for and from the Global South. Global Social Challenges Journal. 1: 94–114. (Online – open access): https://bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/gsc/view/journals/gscj/1/1/article-p94.xml.
References to the work cited are provided in this article.
Biography: Marcel Bursztyn PhD is a Full Professor in the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Brasília in Brazil. He is the coordinator of the Observatory of Socio-environmental Dynamics at the National Institute of Science and Technology. His research interests are climate change governance, public policies integration, interdisciplinarity, and sustainable development.
Biography: Seema Purushothaman PhD is a professor in the School of Development at Azim Premji University in Bangalore, India. Her interests are in the interface of society, development and ecosystems seen through the lenses of ecological economics, inclusive action research and advocacy. Geographically her engagements span across peri urban zones, production landscapes and forest peripheries.
Categories Cases, Context, Institutionalisation, Processes, Stakeholder engagement Tags Academic reward systems, Co-production, Interdisciplinarity (general relevance), Transdisciplinarity (general relevance) Author tags Marcel Bursztyn, Seema Purushothaman
10 thoughts on "Insights into interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in India and Brazil"
Huiyuan Ye
"The focus in both countries at the institutional level tends to be on what is referred to as interdisciplinarity."
This really resonates with the situation in China which saw an influx of joint venture "interdisciplinary universities" in the past decade. Our university, being one of them, has been exploring "proxies" as a way to describe, measure, and scale interdisciplinarity. "Problem", as described in this post, is one because real-world problems are mostly interdisciplinary in nature. "Socialization" is another because it characterizes the way how interdisciplinarity is typically conducted. The socialization proxy also allows examination of student interaction by exploring the relationship between interdisciplinarity and learning outcomes (in our case, adaptively using the VALUE rubrics from the American Association of Colleges and Universities), thus bringing students to the focus. Interestingly, we found that students with an ambition to conduct an undergraduate capstone project of wide interdisciplinarity are sometimes deterred for fear of research capacity issues.
Gabriele Bammer
Posted on behalf of Marcel Bursztyn:
Thanks Huiyuan. We are glad our post raised your reaction, comparing our analysis of India and Brazil with the case you mention, in China. It reinforces our argument that ID and TD deserve to be considered from the specific focus of the Global South. Regarding the point you made on undergraduate students having difficulties in facing complex interdisciplinary projects, we agree with you. ID endeavours are probably more feasible at the post-graduate level, after consolidating solid disciplinary background.
Jan Freihardt
Thanks for this excellent blog post! I am myself engaged in research about riverbank erosion-induced land loss and migration in Bangladesh, and thinking about how to further develop the project in a more inclusive manner. Your post motivated me to proceed in this direction!
Marcel Bursztyn
Thank you Jan. We are glad you've been motivated by our post and wish you success in the research in Bangladesh.
Bruce McKenzie
Thank you for such a concise and insightful review of interdisciplinary activities in your environments. You ask about relevance to the so called Global North and my immediate response the issue is exactly the same in terms of University ranking, resource allocation and relevance to people living in today's situations. In fact it may be that the traditional Universities are even more entrenched in 'discipline' dominance. For me the challenge is taking a model like Community of Practice and building the University staff into being one of the Community sharing their expertise with the experiential expertise of others in the situation. For me the concepts of power, control, accountability and responsibility need to be part of the conversation you describe.
Seema Purushothaman and Marcel Bursztyn
Thank you Bruce. We agree with the idea – " concepts of power, control, accountability and responsibility need to be part of the conversation" .
Traditional Universities' rankings usually consider: publications in high impact-factor periodicals (mostly in English) not accessible to non-academic audiences; awards & Nobel Prizes; as also alumni drawing high compensation packages by international standards. A fair evaluation and ranking of the Academic Social Responsibility of Universities, will also take into account, (attributing appropriately decided weightages) the following criteria:
– field activities being counted as academic credits
– hubs promoting active interface of expertise from different disciplinary departments; as well as between this hub and real problems faced outside the university campus
– institutionalised gateways that respect diverse knowledge systems of local relevance and are capable of meaningful engagement (often dealing with local political-economic/ cultural cleavages) with them in producing Transdisciplinary science for the grassroots
– providing support to tackle unexpected crisis
– active participation in the formulation, implementation and follow-up of public policies and governance.
Jane Palmer
Great overview of your valuable work. I wondered whether there are also paths for community-initiated projects to be taken on by researchers, or even community-led projects that researchers can become involved in, commissioned by the community?
Thanks Jane.
If you are asking for examples, our paper cited below the post has couple of them. General idea to be considered by Universities committed to solving problems in the real time, for their surrounding contexts, could be: establishing dynamically evolving permanent fora (instead of only ad hoc individual initiatives) of open gateways to welcome demands from the "real world". This will catalyse institutionalised but contextually relevant and timely response. Urgent demand for responses by communities are generally stone walled by the slow process of purely academic research process.
Fora are a great idea – and I agree about the slowness (and costliness) of university processes!
While your list is a daunting one I support your focus and wish you well with your work.


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Basel in Portraits / Lucian Hunziker
Celebrities photographed in styles from Nadar to Leibovitz By Boris von Brauchitsch What a whirlwind tour through the history of portrait photography! So you might think from viewing the photo book "Basel in Portraits" by Lucian Hunziker. And the kind of people who were in Basel! From August Sander to Andy Warhol, from Henri Cartier-Bresson to David Lachapelle – the stars of the scene seem to have gathered in order to photograph Basel celebrities. The reality, however, is quite different. A closer look reveals peculiar discrepancies: it is simply impossible that Roger Federer ever met Man Ray. After all, Man
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The little differences: 2. Thumbs crossed, Fingers squeezed
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Expression through movement
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The little differences: 1. To shake or not to shake
When people with German as mother tongue meet, they almost always shake hands. Native English speakers, on the other hand, tend to hold back – with this article The Basel Journal starts a series on the small cultural differences observed between Basel locals and people who have moved here from the Anglophone world. By Martin Pütter There is a saying in the British Isles: "When in Rome, do as the Romans do." That is easier said than done. You would like to know how the locals tick in the area you have moved to? Here in Basel that can be
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The second treat
The Badminton Team European Championships early February were the starter; now the aficionados of this sport in Basel are looking forward to the main course, the Badminton Swiss Open (11 – 16 March). By Martin Pütter The starter was struggling against another major sporting event; the main course, however, will be almost undisturbed. Early in February the Badminton Team European Championships were facing competition from the Olympic Winter Games being held in Sochi at the same time, and thus played to a largely empty stadium. But the Badminton Swiss Open in Basel, held for the 24th time, will certainly draw
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Fasnacht nostalgia from New York
The first time the piccolo-and-drum clique «Nej Yorgg Bebbi» took part in the Basel Fasnacht was in 1981. Twenty-two times the Swiss expats made the pilgrimage to their home town for the carnival. The last time was in 2005; the «Nej Yorgg Bebbi» clique no longer exists. Its former members, however, are still Fasnacht regulars, and this year is no different. By Stéphanie Erni, English by Nigel Hulbert and Martin Pütter It all began back in 1979, with a Basler called Peter Oberhänsli working for the Swiss Consulate in New York. He could well imagine that the many Basel expats
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Basel's cheese and onion tarts
By Christian Rieder of Visitbasel.ch, English by Mandy Freschi Basel's traditional onion tarts and cheese tarts are as much a part of "Morgestraich" as flour soup. The question here is, are they to be considered Lenten or festive dishes? The citizens of Basel really don't care. First of all, we should mention that no one knows exactly why people traditionally feast on onion tarts and cheese tarts during Basel's Fasnacht celebrations, or more precisely when they get under way with "Morgestraich" at 4 o'clock in the morning. Nor do we know where the tradition of roasted flour soup, with or


Child, Francis James, 1825–96, American scholar, b. Boston, grad. Harvard, 1846. At Harvard he was professor of rhetoric (1851–76) and English literature (1876–96). He greatly influenced modern methods of Chaucer study. He is best known, however, for his English and Scottish Popular Ballads (5 vol., 1883–98). This is a major source on folklore in which Child defined, with examples, some 305 types of ballads, including complete textual variations.


Life and living is all about taking risks. It's better to have tried and failed, than to live with the uncertainty of what could have been.
When ever the talk of failure and giving up comes up, I can't help but remember the likes of Thomas Edison the American Inventor, and the many times he failed before he succeeded.
It is all about persistence, learning from your mistakes, taking more calculated risks and success might just be lurking at your next turn.


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Apple Officially Unwraps The iPad Mini And A 4th Gen iPad
During today's "a little more to show" event, Apple unveiled the long-rumored iPad mini along with a major surprise, a new fourth-generation standard model iPad. Today's release comes just six months after unveiling the third-generation iPad which marks a major step up for Apple's traditional release cycle.
The iPad mini features a 7.9-inch Multi-Touch display with a 1024-by-768 resolution. It runs on Apple's dual-core A5 chip which is the same chip that also runs not only the iPad 2 but also last year's iPhone 4S. It has a FaceTime HD front-facing camera and a 5 megapixel iSight camera on the back. It gets the same LTE capabilities as the fourth-generation iPad with LTE and faster Wi-Fi. For adapters it uses Apple's new Lightning connector.
Apple says that, like the other iPads in the lineup, it still offers ten hours of battery life; the company boasts that the iPad mini uses the largest and thinnest battery Apple's ever made.
"iPad mini is every inch an iPad. With its gorgeous 7.9-inch display, iPad mini features the same number of pixels as the original iPad and iPad 2, so you can run more than 275,000 apps designed specifically for iPad," said Philip Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing. "iPad mini is as thin as a pencil and as light as a pad of paper, yet packs a fast A5 chip, FaceTime HD and 5 megapixel iSight cameras and ultrafast wireless―all while delivering up to 10 hours of battery life."
The iPad mini will be available in a variety of configurations. The 16GB model will cost $329, the 32GB model will cost $429, and the 64GB model will cost $529. If you add in the option for cellular connectivity, those prices increase by $129. Pre-orders for the iPad mini will start on Friday, October 26. The Wi-Fi versions will ship starting on November 2, in many countries. Two weeks later, they'll start to ship the iPads with cellular—first in the U.S., and then later around the world.
The new fourth generation iPad features only minor upgrades. It has a 9.7-inch Retina display and includes a new Apple-designed A6X chip that Apple says delivers up to twice the CPU performance and up to twice the graphics performance of the A5X chip. Other new features include a FaceTime HD camera, twice the Wi-Fi performance when compared to previous iPad models and support for additional LTE carriers worldwide.
Like the third-generation iPad, the fourth-generation iPad comes in black in white. It keeps the same pricing: The base 16GB model starts at $499, with 32GB at $599 and 64GB at $699. Cellular-ready models are available for $130 extra, at $529, $629, and $729 for 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB respectively.
Source: Apple - Press Info - Apple Introduces iPad mini
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What The Athletic survey revealed about your favourite Premier League club
With close to 75% of the 20/21 Premier League season done, The Athletic asked their subscribers to rate their favourite club's performances and chances on a variety of issues.
What we can already reveal is that Newcastle United have fared badly in all of the survey results. In fact, they are bottom in all 5 of them, which quite sadly, just sums up the plight of the Magpies fans this season.
Let's get right into it –
Chance of winning a trophy next season
More than half of Wolves, Aston Villa and Leeds United fans reckon they are in with a chance to win a trophy next season.
Amongst the big 6 clubs, Arsenal fans are extremely pessimistic of their odds of bagging any honours in 21/22 with only 31.20% of Gooners voting in favour of Mikel Arteta and co. achieving glory.
Performance this season
As expected, Liverpool and Tottenham Hotspur supporters are not happy with how their season has gone so far.
Though, in quite a surprising turn of events, close to 45% of Leeds United fans remain unsatisfied with the proceedings in 20/21. We wonder what their expectations were considering it was the Whites' first season back in the Premier League after an absence of 16 years.
In another result that is rather stupefying, 71.57% of Arsenal fans reckon they have been good this season. The Gunners are 9th in the table.
If they would be happy if the manager is still there next season
The survey shows that Jose Mourinho's stocks with the Spurs faithful is very low at the moment.
On the other hand, Everton fans are most satisfied as Carlo Ancelotti's popularity continues to soar among the blue half of Merseyside.
If their club is well run
Leicester City maintains their status as one of the best-run clubs.
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If their club plays an entertaining brand of football
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The 5 options (distraught, unhappy, neither, happy, delighted) have been turned into 20%, 40%, 60%, 80% and 100% on the graph.
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