But when it comes to the less-exciting televised exploration of local affairs like zoning policy and energy, and the illumination of the area's arts institutions, KACV-TV is the only gusher in the field.
Stephen Phipps, chairman of Desire Petroleum, and Madagascar Oil's chief executive, Laurie Hunter, reminded us what a hit-and-miss affair oil exploration can be.
For although the book is superficially an exploration of a love affair, it is also deeply concerned with national identity, the nature of the Brazilian character and the effort to build Brazilian cities.
Kisses at Fifty (1973), an exploration of middle-aged affairs, won him a Bafta.
In fact, for my son, exploration is a many-layered affair.
"Within (Labyrinth Within)" is an exploration of an obsessive love affair, imagined by the Swedish choreographer and filmmaker Pontus Lidberg.
Its batteries will be kept topped up by solar panels.Nozomi, as befits the product of a relative newcomer to space exploration, is a more modest affair.
Stranger than fiction but just as gripping is How to Ruin a Queen (John Murray, Jonathan Beckmann's masterly exploration of the "diamond necklace" affair, a bizarre scandal that some claim set Marie Antoinette on the road to the guillotine.
Denmark: Follow the Money (BBC4, early 2016) The phrase "Danish economic thriller" may not set the pulse racing, but then neither did "30-episode Copenhagen political drama" or "Danish exploration of the Schleswig-Holstein affair".
Julian Ventura, the Mexican director general for Asian affairs, said oil exploration did not even come up Monday.
This is an excerpt from "Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash," an exploration of garbage and its place in America, by Edward Humes.
