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The Thing About Pam

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The Spindles of Shirley's Balcony Railing

Shirley was killed in a fall from her third floor balcony. A couple of the bent and broken spindles were lying nearby. An autopsy revealed that Shirley had about 14 times the recommended dose for a woman her age of ambient or its equivalent in her system. We asked a structural engineer named Justin Hall to do a little math.

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