This May seem too obvious but #1 in our 101 Ways Not to Burn series is simply not to set things on fire. While simple to say this is very difficult to do. Even when not considering extensions of fire starting abstracted by a process or two, parting with the ways in which we directly light things on fire personally is difficult. The things we light on fire ourselves tend to have a direct ephemeral connection to our primal selves and to our experience of magic, warmth, comfort,

#6 - Thermodynamics: it came to my attention lately that a brilliant fabulous friend of mine had never heard of the 2nd law of thermodynamics. This made me realize there may be many out there not yet privy to this little gem, commonly credited to the work of 19th century mechanical engineer, Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot. The 2nd law of thermodynamics is an important frame for our discussion of fire and so I shall briefly recap. The axiom asserts that energy in a “closed system