On brevity:

Mark Twain once began a letter, saying:

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."

Welcome to minimalist week(s) at Beams and Struts. 

Short articles. 

Five hundred words or so. 

Presenting something and saying something about it, compactly. 

Here's the first week's articles:

-TJ Dawe (me), on Ian McEwan's novel Solar, and the question it brings up: Will our Dysfunction Eclipse Our Brilliance?

-new contributor Michael Milano on male body image - The Only Six Pack I Have Is In My Fridge