Show Notes

This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 17 - Hong Kong City (ホンコン・シティ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Hong Kong's history and brain-computer interfaces.

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- General histories of Hong Kong from Wikipedia, Encyclopedia Britannica, Lonely Planet, Oxford Research Encyclopedia, Discover Hong Kong (tourism website), and Hong Kong Free Press.

- Explanation of crown colonies.

- Hong Kong in the 1980s.

- Hong Kong chronologies from Reuters, BBC, and National Geographic.

- Articles on how the contemporary political situation in Hong Kong is influenced by its history, from National Geographic and History.com.

- Explanation of electroencephalography (EEG) and electrocorticography (ECoG).

- Alvien Lucier's brain-performed "Music For Solo Performer" (1965)

- Wikipedia page on brain-computer interfaces.

- Tragic end to the vision restoration implant experiment.

- Article on the ethical considerations of brain-computer interfaces.

- Research on using a brain-computer interface to 'extract' information from an unwitting subject's mind:

Martinovic, Davies, Frank, Perito, Ros, Song. On the Feasibility of Side-Channel Attacks with Brain-Computer Interfaces. Available at https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/usenixsecurity12/sec12-final56.pdf.

- Articles dealing with prostheses, control methods, and mental load:

Mathijs Soede, On the Mental Load in Arm Prosthesis Control, Nederlands Instituut voor Praeventieve Gezondheidszorg, 1980

Dudley S. Childress. Historical Aspects of Powered Limb Prostheses. 1984. Available at

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