Matches

If you glue two matches together, you’ll find the sticks won’t be parallel to each other because the match heads at…

We’ve been told our entire lives not to play with fire. But whoever coined that expression never stopped to think…

Making matches at a factory involves some staggering numbers: two million splints an hour get fed into a perforated…

If your five o’clock shadow isn’t rugged enough to light a match with, and there’s no where else to strike one, a…

Sometimes life gives you too many damn matches and not enough things to strike them on. In those situations, just…

Who would have though a column of fire slowly moving in your direction could be in any way calming?

Many of you may remember this slow motion video from a little over a year ago. The American Chemical Society has now…

Birthdays are as much about celebrating someone as they are a desperate attempt to find a book of matches or a…

It's usually over in an instant, but when you capture macro footage of a match head igniting at 4,000 frames per…

Striking a match isn't a particularly dramatic process. But an explosion that goes off with the tap of a glass…

Need an excuse to go play with matches? Too bad, you're getting one anyway. Turns out if you place a couple matches…

In practice, strike-anywhere matches are super simple; just hit things until fire starts. But there's actually a…

We all know the familiar, dotted pattern of a matchbox striking strip. It's distinctive, but not particularly…

Douse them with water. Bury them in earth. Blast them with air. None of it's going to stop these matches from…

They aren't carton-lit like real matches, but these match candles ($6 for 4 packs) are one way to up the ante on…

Some people can start a fire with green two twigs in a monsoon, but others among us prefer to do things the easy way.

Can't get enough of Bruce Lee secret training videos, even if they happen to just be viral ads for Nokia's…

Hey, it's your birthday! To celebrate this momentous occasion I got the pocket birthday kit complete with four…

Think lighting a match takes too much time and effort? You're not alone, apparently. Rather than going through the…