"We don't provide you one single answer, but provide you both strongly connected topics as well as topics with more serendipitous connection and allow you to choose.
Kaling talks like this: rapid-fire bursts of conversation that leap between loosely connected topics.
A student may plan to write a sustained piece of work on one topic; he/she may instead plan to write two or three papers on connected topics.
Evolution and the origin of life are separate, if connected, topics, but they are frequently conflated especially by creationists.
The author treats the classic topics of Markov chain theory, both in discrete time and continuous time, as well as the connected topics such as finite Gibbs fields, nonhomogeneous Markov chains, discrete- time regenerative processes, Monte Carlo simulation, simulated annealing, and queuing theory.
When I do that, almost any talk or topic is interesting, even if I have to do translation work to connect topic X to my own interests**.
The acknowledgment of all these topics is well-done, but the baseline is again to maintain cross-sectoral "coherence," rather than considering further, specific steps for connecting topics alongside operational connections.
Back in 2009, Bardzell was starting to prepare her tenure portfolio connecting topics of affective computing, domestic interaction, tech-mediated sexuality, and research through design.
I argue that advocacy organizations are more likely to inspire social media conversation if their messages fill "cultural holes," or connect topics of conversation that are seldom discussed together.
Another strategy is to connect topics in biological evolution to students' everyday experiences, such as discussing genetically modified food and antibiotic-resistant bacteria (see Hillis 2007 for example).
