But this time around, I've decided to go for exploring a varied rather than a monocultural world.
Called Sinatra, it uses the singer Frank Sinatra as a matrix for exploring a broad range of theoretical and empirical questions.
These ingenious techniques for exploring a tiny animal's behavior are the fruit of many years' work by Dr. Bargmann's and other labs.
Their marriage is the subject of Zachary Heinzerling's cleareyed and touching documentary, which uses their work as background for exploring a complex, sometimes volatile relationship.
The term "strategic opportunities" (or its more common cousin, "strategic alternatives") is usually thinly veiled code for "exploring a potential sale".
In the following story, the Doctor sabotages the Tardis because his companions don't share his enthusiasm for exploring a city in the middle of a petrified alien jungle.
Chair of judges, the writer and academic Delia Jarrett-Macauley, praised the story for exploring "a difficult subject – how traditional beliefs in a rural community are used to tackle schizophrenia.
Müller becomes its 106th winner; last year French novelist JMG Le Clézio won, cited for his "new departures, poetic adventure and sensual ecstasy", and for exploring "a humanity beyond and below the reigning civilization".
But with Fear and Love, McGuirk has set out a powerful stall for the institution to act as a forum for exploring a world of critical, provocative and unsettling ideas.
Ultimately, then, "Star Trek" was prescient not for its futurism, with the Enterprise crew using communicators that look like flip-phones, but for exploring a universe absorbed with pop-culture history.
