Gavin Friday shows off his funky shoes.

Alcohol keeps Gavin Friday up very late.

Mistakes are fine, says Gavin Friday, as long as you learn from them.

Musician Gavin Friday dissects the legendary relationship between the Irish, alcohol, and creativity.

Gavin Friday tells aspiring musicians not to think about how to get into the music business; instead, they need to join music because it is a part of them.

Sure, the Celtic Tiger has been great for Ireland’s economy–but what has it done for Irish culture? Musician Gavin Friday is not optimistic.

Irish musician Gavin Friday has come a long way since inventing an imaginary world, Lipton Village, as a child with a few artistic friends. He tells Big Think how he […]

It’s safer to travel by airplane than by car, but people feel more secure on the road. The likely reason is that we feel less threatened when we have some […]

Yesterday, Big Think went West to Mountain View, CA to sit down with Anne Wojcicki, co-founder of personal genetics company 23andMe, a Google-backed start-up that makes home genetics tests available […]

A lot of people are crying the blues over the slow demise of the home delivered newspaper. I'm not one of them although I've been a journalist my entire adult life.

Irish singer, composer and painter, Gavin Friday stopped by the studio today. Among many topics, he spoke about growing up in Ireland, his work, his friendship with U2’s lead singer, […]

Yesterday, Wired Editor-in-Chief and author of “Free: The Future of a Radical Price”, Chris Anderson, joined Big Think’s co-founder, Peter Hopkins, for an interview in Mountain View, CA. Anderson offered […]

John Kerry and Barbara Boxer’s new Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act is  being trumpeted into the Senate this week. The act, stronger than the bill passed by the […]

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A month of fashion goes out with a bang this week in the city that does it best—Paris. As recent Big Think guest and New York Magazine fashion director Harriet […]

I have little hope in the United Nations when it comes to issues of accountability abroad. That goes in spades when it comes to places like Afghanistan. Case in point: […]

Long considered an extension of a world populated by characters with capes, superpowers, and bad nicknames, the graphic novel has suddenly become the go-to vehicle for recounting history. It could […]

Economist editor Matthew Bishop has a knack for looking on the bright side: in this age of capitalism, inequality and multi-billionaires, Bishop focus on potential rather than gloom. His book, […]

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Poker champion Annie Duke visited Big Think today. Not only is she good at high-stakes cards, she is a former winner of the World Series of Rock Paper Scissors. She […]