This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 24 - Counterattack (反撃), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Japanese grammar and vocabulary, Wernher von Braun, desertification, and a final (we hope!) note about "the birds will laugh at me."

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- Kotobank page for レクリエーション (recreation). Kotobank pulls definitions from various sources. All definitions in Japanese.

- Miriam Webster and Dictionary.com definitions of recreation.

- To talk about the ~んです grammar from this episode, I consulted the following books (and highly recommend them if you’re studying Japanese):

“No Da のだ.” A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar 日本語基本文法辞典, by Seiichi Makino and Michio Tsutsui, Japan Times, 2007, pp. 325–328.

“Chapter 12.1 ~んです.” Genki I an Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, by Eri Banno et al., The Japan Times, 1999, pp. 230–231.

- Wikipedia pages for Von Braun himself, the Von Braun Crater (not the site of Von Braun City), and the V-2 (vergeltungswaffe, "vengeance weapon") rocket program he headed.

- A review of empirical evidence about Von Braun's membership in the Nazi party, the SS, and the extent of his culpability for the suffering and death of the enslaved laborers who built his rockets:

Neufeld, Michael J. “Wernher Von Braun, the SS, and Concentration Camp Labor: Questions of Moral, Political, and Criminal Responsibility.” German Studies Review, vol. 25, no. 1, 2002, pp. 57–78. JSTOR, <www.jstor.org/stable/1433245>.

- A history of the V-2 rocket program:

Bode, Volkhard and Kaiser, George. Building Hitler's Missiles: Traces of History in Peenemünde. Ch. Links Verlag (2008).

- A broadly positive history of Von Braun's life and career that touches on the darker aspects:

Dunar, Andrew J. Wernher Von Braun: A Visionary as Engineer and Manager. From Realizing the Dream of Flight, a NASA anthology edited by Virginia Dawson and Mark Bowles. Government Printing Office (Dec 31, 2005).

- Article describing a young Von Braun engaged in what would today be considered unethical experiments on mice:

Bartels, Meghan. "Before He Was a Rocket Engineer for Nazi Germany, Von Braun Was a Student Experimenting on Mice." Space.com. August 12, 2019. Available at

- Reference.com: What percentage of Africa is desert?

- Wikipedia pages on desertification and on Sahel droughts.

- Britannica page on desertification.

- An overview of current understanding of desertification, from the Desertification Control Bulletin.

- Detailed statistics and maps indicating risk of human-induced desertification in Africa, from the United States Department of Agriculture.

- A more recent (2015) article from the BBC about the current effects of desertification.

- Homepage, Wikipedia page, and Smithsonian article about The Great Green Wall, a project to combat desertification in the Sahel.

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This week, we have the text of the forum comments and discussion prompts, and sources for submitted research pieces. Some comments have been shortened or reformatted.

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Dan: I would like to know your opinion on why certain Mobile suits are called Gundam, and others aren’t. Take the MK II, it’s made of titanium alloy, but it’s called a Gundam. The Hyaku Shiki and Rick Dias are both made of Gundarium Alloy, ( Luna Titanium retconned name) but are not classified as Gundams.

LC: I would like you guys to do an occasional deeper dive into the suits themselves. They're characters in the show, and I'd love an occasional conversation about the aesthetics and in-universe story behind them.

Sean: Why is the Hyaku Shiki the best MS ever?

Robert submitted a research piece about the boat we mentioned in episode 2.19 of the podcast (the one on which Namicar Cornell travels, and where Mirai and her children are held). Sources: definition and explanation of hydrofoils, about the historic hydrofoil passenger service between Hong Kong and Macau, the current hydrofoil passenger service called TurboJET, about the USS Plainview (to which this ship's design might be a reference), and video of the USS Plainview in action.

LC: Gundam gets worse the more it strays from harder sci-fi.

Needs more Charma: Toward the end of First Gundam, Gihren and Degwin Zabi share an infamous scene in which Degwin asks if Gihren, Zeon’s “Supreme Leader,” has ever heard of Adolf Hitler. Gihren then describes himself as “a follower of Hitler.” The conventional reading of this scene, and the one Thom & Nina discussed on the podcast, is that Degwin is accusing Girhen of being like Hitler and Gihren eagerly accepts the accusation. As Thom put it, this is when the show turns to the audience and states outright that the whole thing has been a metaphor for World War II. However, I think this scene actually shows that Gihren is an analog not for Hitler, but for his follower Mussolini. Both relied on an external force more powerful than themselves (Mussolini relied on Hitler, Gihren relied on Newtypes). Gihren, like Mussolini, is incoherent as a commander. And he’s killed by Kycilia, similar to the way Mussolini was executed by Italian partisans. The true stand-in for Hitler in First Gundam is actually Char. There are two reasons for this. First is the relationship between Gihren (as Mussolini) and Char - Gihren is weaker in every way and relies on Char’s strength for the sake of achieving his own ambitions. Just as Mussolini’s fascist Italy relied on Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Second, Char is depicted as having taken up but also warped his father’s philosophical beliefs, creating a violent perversion of Zeon Deikun’s philosophy. This reflects Hitler’s own self-aggrandizing interpretation of the philosophy espoused by his mentor Dietrich Eckart. I think the Char/Lalah relationship is more an allegory of the relationship between Hitler and the party and the German public given that both Lalah and Germany rely exclusively on Char/Hitler for survival and also shows how the manipulation of said devotees can lead seeming innocent people to commit barbaric acts in the name of a moral crusade, often against their own self interest.

Steven B.: The topic I’m most interested in is theorizing what Gundam manga & light novels could be adapted into anime. What can I say? I love liminal spaces and your podcast is built around only the parts of Gundam that exist as anime. Now, unless I’m mistaken, such adaptations were nonexistent in the Gundam franchise up until the past decade, which saw 4 (that I know of). I know Tomino himself wrote a novelized version of Char’s Counterattack before the film was made, but I’m given to understand it was a soft pitch and by no means a hit on its own. With Hathaway’s Flash coming this winter, what the hell, I want to run down a Top 5 Non-anime Gundam That Could Maybe Become Anime Gundams Some Time in the Near Future.

Austin: Why doesn't Amuro know how to shake hands? What happened on that dock with Kamille? That was the most confused congratulations ever. (This is a reference to the episode where they shake hands on the dock in Hong Kong after rescuing Mirai)

Kyle F.: While the Soviet Buran was superficially similar enough to the US Shuttle to be called a copy, it differed in a principally important way. The Shuttle itself was the launch vehicle, aided by an external fuel tank and 2 boosters while the Buran was merely the payload delivered to orbit by a separate rocket system that also used two boosters.

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Our show-notes are a bit odd this week - no sources, just the text of the questions submitted to us. We have done little or no editing of them, so for the most part they are exactly as they were submitted to us.

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Personal

Gundam

What’s your favorite Mobile Suit?

If you could remake Gundam…

Nina meets Gundam

Thom meets Gundam Again

Interviews

Just for Fun

Going Places

Non-Anime Gundam

The Podcast - Podpast

The Podcast - Podfuture

The Podcast - Process

Other Media

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 23 - Moon Attack (ムーン・アタック), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research Japanese youth and religion, home shrines and altars in Japan, and a Gundam names round-up that include Buran Blutarch (ブラン・ブルターク), Mouar Pharoah (マウアー・ファラオ), and Siddeley. Plus, the birds laugh at us (a research dead-end!).

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- From my attempts to figure out "the birds will laugh at me" - a study of Chinese pottery from a specific kiln, includes examples of pottery with poetry painted on and the “I fear flowers and birds will laugh at me” line.

- Anime News Network page for Andersen Monogatari, a 1968 Japanese animated film based on the life and stories of Hans Christian Andersen.

- Info page and link to watch Ahiru no ko, or The Ugly Duckling, a silent animated short from Japan, released in 1932. This website is amazing, and has lots of early Japanese animated works viewable in their entirety.

- Published study about Japanese young adults and their perception of religion:

Japanese Youth Confronts Religion, Fernando M. Basabe. 1967.

- Wikipedia articles for kamidana and butsudan, as well an article from learnjapanese123.com about them, and one from tofugu.com about butsudan specifically. The Tofugu article has some great historical information on how the practice of keeping a butsudan may have developed.

- Book about ceremony in Japanese home-life, including butsudan, kamidama, and the practices around them:

Jeremy, Michael, et al. Ceremony and Symbolism in the Japanese Home. University of Hawaii Press, 1989.

- Paper about perceptions and use of butsudan in the Japanese diaspora community in the United States, especially among nisei, sansei, and further removed generations:

Iwamura, Jane Naomi. “Altared States: Exploring the Legacy of Japanese American Butsudan Practice.” Pacific World, no. 5, ser. 3, 2003, pp. 275–292. 3.

- Wired article and creator webpage for a design project to create smaller and simpler butsudan, reflecting modern and minimalist design.

- On Buran Blutarch (ブラン・ブルターク), Wikipedia pages for the Buran program, the Buran spacecraft, and the Energia (the rocket booster used with the Buran spacecraft).

- NY Times Article about the Soviet Buran program's test flights immediately prior to Zeta's creation:

"SOVIET UNION LOFTS A SHUTTLE MODEL IN AMBITIOUS PLAN" by John Noble Wilford, Dec. 20 1984.

- NBC Article about the KGB stealing shuttle program documents for the Buran program:

"How the Soviets stole a space shuttle" by Robert Windrem, Nov. 4, 1997.

- Brief Roscosmos video about the Buran, in Russian but includes video of the craft launching and its fully automated landing.

- CNN Article about the Buran being left to rot in Kazakhstan:

"Two abandoned Soviet space shuttles left in Kazakh steppe" by Jacopo Prisco, Dec. 21, 2017.

- Detailed timeline of the Buran program.

- Space.com retrospective on the Buran, including its ultimate fate (destroyed when its hangar collapsed).

- Jisho.org entry for Plutarch (プルタルコス).

- Wikipedia page for Plutarch.

- On Mouar Pharaoh (マウアー・ファラオ): Maua (Kenya), Mauá (Brazil), Maúa (Mozambique), the Maua tree, and the Maua cicada.

- Wikipedia and CFA (Cat Fanciers' Association) pages for the Egyptian Mau Cat. And a cute video, "Meet the Egyptian Mau."

- Wikipedia pages for Pharaoh (the title and position), and for Cleopatra (the 1963 movie).

- Liz Taylor/Mouar side-by-side comparison image (created by Thom).

- Wikipedia pages for John Siddeley, the Hawker Siddeley company, and the Hawker Siddeley Harrier (a famous VTOL fighter jet).

- 1975 archive footage from inside a Hawker Siddeley plant.

- Excessively dramatic mini-documentary about the Harrier with a lot of footage of them in action.

- The song for the TNN Marasai advertisement is "Drops of H2O ( The Filtered Water Treatment )" by J.Lang (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (3.0) license. Ft: Airtone.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 22 - The Eyes of Scirocco (シロッコの眼), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Scirocco's implement and corporal punishment in Zeta, the history of vending machines, and a follow-up on last week's research on Saint Miki.

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- Roman centurion's vine staff (or vitis, plural vites).

- Its descendant, the swagger stick.

- An 1869 treatise of staggering length and breadth on the history of corporal punishment:

Cooper, William M. The History of the Rod: Flagellation and Flagellants in All Countries from the Earliest Period to the Present Time. Kegan Paul (1869).

And on the Japanese Context:

Drea, Edward J. In the Service of the Emperor: Essays on the Imperial Japanese Army. U. of Nebraska (2003).

- Japanese Wikipedia page on soldiers and training, including notes on Imperial Japanese Army and Navy policies on hazing.

Miller, Aaron L. Discourses of Discipline: An Anthropology of Corporal Punishment in Japan's Schools and Sports. Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley (available here).

Yoneyama, Shoko. The Japanese High School: Silence and Resistance. Routledge (2012).

- A WW2 era US Army translation of an internal Japanese Army report on the state of discipline and morale in the army.

- Blog post republishing a Mainichi Japan article from November 2009 about the Totsuka Yacht School, and talking about the relationship between hierarchical power and violence.

- Japan Times article about corporal punishment in Japanese sports, and its interconnection with popular media including anime, as well as the attitudes among many older Japanese people that corporal punishment is an essential component of masculinity.

- Japanese page on the 軍人精神注入棒 Military Spirit Instillation Rod (or the Soldierly Spirit Injection Stick).

- Bon Appetit article on the history of vending machines, (includes images of patent drawings) and another brief history with examples of unusual vending machines.

- Description of Heron Alexandrinus’ holy-water dispensing machine (and some other miscellaneous details about the vending machine industry).

- History of the Automat (restaurant where all food was purchased from vending machines).

- Wikipedia page on vending machines (history portion is not very detailed but has useful statistics on vending machines in Japan and sections on different types of vending machines).

- History and context for vending machines in Japan.

- Burger vending machines (FEBO in the Netherlands is an example of an automat).

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 21 - A Sign of Zeta (ゼータの鼓動), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the possible inspiration for the Gabthlay and it's gun - the fedayeen, blood oaths in Japanese history, and Saint Miki.

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- Fedayeen on Wikipedia.

- Painting of an Afghan warrior carrying a jezail ("juzzail" in the caption).

- Article about the jezail, with more photos.

- A Gadfly mech from Crusher Joe.

- Wikipedia article for Horse-fly.

- Instances of the gadfly in Greek myth.

- An English translation of Plato's "Apology of Socrates."

- About Ethel Voynich's novel, The Gadfly,, and the text on Project Gutenberg.

- Japanese Wikipedia page for keppanjou / けっぱんじょう / 血判状 (a compact or covenant, sealed with blood).

- Japanese and English Wikipedia pages on the Kumano shrines.

- Tourist information for Kumano.

- First-hand account of Tokugawa-era Japan, by German naturalist Engelbert Kaempfer (English translation):

Kempfer, Engelbert, and Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey. Kaempfer's Japan: Tokugawa Culture Observed. University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

- Wikipedia page for Engelbert Kaempfer (sometimes rendered Kempfer).

- Paper that discusses blood oaths in the master/disciple relationship (especially in martial arts):

Ozawa, Hiroshi. “Essence of Training (Keiko) in Japanese Culture: Technique (Waza) Acquirement and Secret of Kendo.” Tokyo University of Science, Tokyo, 25 Jan. 2005.

- Japanese and English Wikipedia pages for the 血盟団事件 / “League of Blood Incident.”

- Paper on the Buddhist concept of Samādhi and its use to justify violence in Imperial Japan (discusses the League of Blood Incident and the respected Zen Buddhist master Yamamoto Gempou who testified in support of the terrorists):

Victoria, Brian Daizen. “Samādhi Power in Imperial Japan.” (2017).

- Saint Miki in English and Japanese Wikipedia, and the Wikipedia page for the 26 Martyrs of Japan.

- Saint Miki's saint-page on catholic.org, and a more detailed description of the torture and execution of the martyrs.

- Recounting of the San Felipe Incident.

- And a book that covers the period of missionary activity before the suppression of Christianity in Japan:

Boxer, Charles Randolph. The Christian Century in Japan: 1549-1650. U. of California Press (1951).

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 20 - The Heated Escape (灼熱の脱出), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on the inspiration for the Titan's New Guinea Base, and solid rocket boosters.

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- Wikipedia page for New Guinea.

- Google maps link for Lae.

- General New Guinea pre-colonial and colonial history from the official Papua New Guinea travel website, thecommonwealth.org, and the Wikipedia pages for the Territory of Papua and Western New Guinea.

- Additional articles about New Guinea's pre-colonial and colonial history:

The Economist. Papua New Guinea’s incredible linguistic diversity. July 20, 2017. https://www.economist.com/the-economist-explains/2017/07/20/papua-new-guineas-incredible-linguistic-diversity

Quanchi, M. and Robson, J. Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Pacific Islands, Maryland: Scarecrow (2005).

- Information about New Guinea's pre-history and agricultural revolution:

Harari, Y. N. Sapiens: A brief history of humankind. New York: Harper (2015).

Sack Peter. German New Guinea: a reluctant plantation colony?. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, n°82-83, tome 42, 1986. Les plantations dans le Pacifique Sud. pp. 109-127. Available at https://doi.org/10.3406/jso.1986.2826

Historical Section of the Foreign Office, Dutch New Guinea and the Molucca Islands. London: H.M. Stationery Office (1920). Available at: https://dl.wdl.org/11918/service/11918.pdf

Pouwer, Jan. “The Colonisation, Decolonisation and Recolonisation of West New Guinea.” The Journal of Pacific History, vol. 34, no. 2, 1999, pp. 157–179. JSTOR, <www.jstor.org/stable/25161076>.

- Wikipedia pages for various aspects of the Lae Campaign in World War II: the New Guinea campaign as a whole, the Salamaua Lae campaign, and the landing at Nadzab.

- US army newsreels about the Lae campaign. Please be aware that these were made during the war and they both contain frequent uses of exactly the anti-Japanese slur that you would expect.

- About the Free Papua Movement and Indonesian Annexation of West Papua.

- Histories of the Conflict:

https://uca.edu/politicalscience/dadm-project/asiapacific-region/indonesiairian-jaya-1963-present/

Schnabel Albrecht, Gunaratna Rohan. Wars From Within: Understanding And Managing Insurgent Movements. World Scientific (2014).

King, Peter. West Papua & Indonesia Since Suharto: Independence, Autonomy, or Chaos? UNSW (2004).

Belford, Aubrey. "An Indonesian War of 'Unknown Persons'" The International Herald Tribune, Aug. 27, 2011. Available at: https://nyti.ms/2BmIM90.

- Reports on human rights abuses from the conflict:

Brundige et al. Indonesian Human Rights Abuses in West Papua: Application of the Law of Genocide to the History of Indonesian Control. Allard K. Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic at Yale Law School. Available at: https://law.yale.edu/sites/default/files/documents/pdf/Intellectual_Life/West_Papua_final_report.pdf

Amnesty International. INDONESIA: "DON'T BOTHER, JUST LET HIM DIE": KILLING WITH IMPUNITY IN PAPUA. July 2, 2018. Available at: https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/asa21/8198/2018/en/.

- About the development of the space shuttle Columbia and its first launch and return.

- History of the space shuttle program.

- NASA overview page for the space shuttle program, with links to more detailed information on the science and history.

- Some great photos of space shuttles before and during launch, during transport, and docked with Mir space station.

- NASA page from before the end of the space shuttle program, with overview, statistics, and a photograph of a shuttle with the different major components labeled.

- Wikipedia pages on solid rocket boosters. This one is very technical - digs into the science of how all the different components work together at different stages, and has good diagrams. This one is more general, and discusses the pros and cons of solid rocket boosters compared to liquid propellant rockets.

- About Newtons (unit of measurement).

- Wikipedia page on reusable launch systems, with additional information about post-space shuttle program projects, especially in the private sector.

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 19 - Cinderella Four (シンデレラ・フォウ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on Attachment Theory.

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- Wikipedia pages for Attachment Theory, John Bowlby, the Strange Situation protocol, and Attachment in adults.

- Paper that addresses attachment in adolescents.

- An overview of Adult Attachment Theory and some of the research behind it.

- And an even shorter overview on attachment in adults and how it affects relationships.

- We didn't discuss it in depth, but if you're curious, here are articles from the APA (American Psychological Association), NPR (National Public Radio), and the New York Times about how the conditions experienced by institutionalized children in Romania affected them (in terms of attachment, neurological development, and long-term effects). The New York Times article also discusses some of the history of attachment theory in popular discourse, and the controversies around it.

- Wikipedia page for Michelangelo's “Pieta” (one of the most famous).

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This week, we recap, review, and analyze Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam (機動戦士Ζガンダム) episode 18 - Mirai Captured (とらわれたミライ), discuss our first impressions, and provide commentary and research on more Gundam names: Hathaway Noa, Namicar Cornell, and Four Murasame.

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- Plausible origins of the name Hathaway.

- Source for Hathaway-like medieval predecessors for Hedwig.

- Wikipedia page and IMDB page for Noah Hathaway.

- Japanese release data for the film Neverending Story.

- Wikipedia page for "Boxey" character from original Battlestar Galactica TV series.

- Sean (Flying_Grizzly)'s research connecting Battlestar Galactica to First Gundam.

- Jisho.org entries for Namika names, namikaze, and 'namikaze ga tatsu'/波風が立つ (to make waves; to rock the boat).

- Wikipedia entry for Ezra Cornell.

- JPN Wiki page for Cornell University.

- Wikipedia and Wiktionary pages for "Murasame."

- Page for the most famous of the Murasame destroyers.

- Murasame in the Final Fantasy franchise.

- Wikipedia page on Nansou Satomi Hakkenden.

- Ongoing project to translate all of the Nansou Satomi Hakkenden novel.

- Wikipedia page for the Matsukaze Noh play.

- Pages for the Matsukaze Noh play's authors: Kanami and Zeami.

- Discussions about Matsukaze from a History of Noh blog and The-Noh.com.

- Tyler, Royall. “The No Play Matsukaze as a Transformation of Genji Monogatari.” Journal of Japanese Studies, vol. 20, no. 2, 1994, pp. 377–422. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/133198.

- Two translations of Matsukaze, this one more readable in English and this one less so.

- Side-by-side English and Japanese text of Matsukaze Noh play (this is the one Nina reads from).

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The intro music is WASP by Misha Dioxin, and the outro is Long Way Home by Spinning Ratio, both licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license. Both have been edited for length.

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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 http://www.oandplibrary.org/cpo/pdf/1985_01_002.pdf.

R.M. Campbell, Control Aspects of Prosthetics and Orthotics, Proceedings of the IFAC Symposium, Ohio, USA 7-9 May 1982, Elsevier (2014).

- A brief history of brain-computer interfaces from a company that makes them for consumers.

- Much more detailed histories:

Fabien Lotte, Chang S. Nam, Anton Nijholt. Introduction: Evolution of Brain-Computer Interfaces. Chang S. Nam; Anton Nijholt; Fabien Lotte. Brain-Computer Interfaces Handbook: Technological and Theoretical Advance, Taylor & Francis (CRC Press), pp.1-11, 2018, 9781498773430. ffhal-01656743f (Available at https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01656743/document)

Leuthardt, E. C., Schalk, G., Roland, J., Rouse, A., & Moran, D. W. (2009). Evolution of brain-computer interfaces: going beyond classic motor physiology. Neurosurgical focus, 27(1), E4. doi:10.3171/2009.4.FOCUS0979 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2920041/)

- Articles about how brain-computer interfaces work and what they can do:

Shih, J. J., Krusienski, D. J., & Wolpaw, J. R. (2012). Brain-computer interfaces in medicine. Mayo Clinic proceedings, 87(3), 268–279. doi:10.1016/j.mayocp.2011.12.008 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497935/

Krucoff, M. O., Rahimpour, S., Slutzky, M. W., Edgerton, V. R., & Turner, D. A. (2016). Enhancing Nervous System Recovery through Neurobiologics, Neural Interface Training, and Neurorehabilitation. Frontiers in neuroscience, 10, 584. doi:10.3389/fnins.2016.00584 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5186786/

Duke SciPol, “Brain-Computer Interface based Neuro-prosthetics” available at https://scipol.org/learn/science-library/brain-computer-interface-based-neuro-prosthetics (05/19/2017).

Colin Payne. Engineering a Brain-Computer Interface. April 27, 2017. Available at https://www.engineering.com/DesignerEdge/DesignerEdgeArticles/ArticleID/14815/Engineering-a-Brain-Computer-Interface.aspx

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