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We cant avoid aging. Every passing minute brings us one minute closer to the end. Not a pleasant thought. So, it is little wonder that the term anti-aging has been seized by marketers of various cosmetics, health supplements, exotic juices and dietary regimens. Anti-aging medicine is a growing field with numerous biotech companies working on drugs designed to combat the aging process.

The quest for immortality, of course, is not new. The ancient alchemists sought to turn base metals like lead into gold in order to find the secret of golds immortality. After all, the metal would not tarnish, it maintained its beautiful sheen and seemed to last forever. If they could find its magic, they could perhaps apply it to humans. But they never did find the secret. Lead is still lead and the alchemists are long dead.

This is not to say that there are not some intriguing possibilities that may help slow down the clock. As we age, an increasing number of our cells enter a stage of senescence in which they no longer divide and begin to release chemicals that cause inflammation resulting in damage to tissues. A buildup of senescent cells, sometimes called zombie cells, is a hallmark of aging. Can anything be done to prevent this buildup? Possibly. At least in mice. When researchers at the Mayo Clinic injected just a small number of senescent cells into young mice, their speed, endurance and strength eroded to that seen in a senior mouse in just a few weeks. When the mice were then treated with desatinib and quercetin, a combination of drugs known to destroy senescent cells, they recovered most of their lost physical capabilities within two weeks! Quite dramatic! But mice are not people, and while quercetin is a safe compound extracted from apple peel, desatinib is a very expensive leukemia drug with loads of side effects. Still, this experiment is a proof of principle, demonstrating that destroying senescent cells with senolytics is worthy of exploration.

However, slowing aging may not be a matter of what we do, but what we dont do. It may be that if we want to live longer, all we have to do is eat less. Calorie restriction has been the only sure-fire way that scientists have found to slow aging in animals from rodents to monkeys and now we are beginning to accumulate data that suggests this applies to humans, as well. The idea that less is more when it comes to eating is not new. Hippocrates noted that fat people were more likely to die suddenly than slender ones, and Avicenna, the famed Persian philosopher and physician, suggested that the elderly should eat less than when they were younger.

Venetian nobleman Luigi Cornaro may have been the first to put a restricted calorie diet to a test in the 17th century when he came to believe that his health was deteriorating due to excessive partaking of food, drink and sex. He then restricted himself to no more than 350 grams of food a day and 400 mL of wine and lived to the ripe old age of 98. He documented his regimen in his book Discourses On the Temperate Life and described how the changes he made in his lifestyle allowed him to remain in vigorous health well into old age.

Today, members of the Calorie Restriction Society that has the goal of increasing longevity are following in Cornaros footsteps and are acting as human guinea pigs. They consume no more than 2,000 calories per day, which is just over half of what an average North American wolfs down. They dont do this, though, by eating half servings of hamburger, fries or pizza. They do it by following a diet high in whole grains, fruits, vegetables, beans and fish. And according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, the austere regimen is paying off. Researchers examined the heart function of 25 members of the Calorie Restriction Society, and to their amazement found that the hearts functioned like those of people 15 years younger. But permanent hunger is not appealing.

What is appealing, however, is taking a deep dive into the science of aging. That is just what we will do this year at our annual Trottier Public Science Symposium, one of McGills largest annual public events. We have invited three expert speakers to address humans Longing for Longevity. On Tuesday, Oct. 22, Harvard Professor of Genetics David Sinclair, a world leader in aging research, will discuss how aging may be a treatable disease, and cosmetic chemist Kelly Dobos will scrutinize claims made by producers of anti-aging cosmetics. On Wednesday, Oct. 23, Ruth Westheimer, psychosexual therapist, author and pioneer of radio and television programs dealing with sexual issues will speak on Sex After 50. (Spoiler: there is.)

The symposium will take place at 7 p.m. both days at the Centre Mont Royal, 1000 Sherbrooke St. West. Admission is free. Arrive early.

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Joe Schwarcz is director of McGill Universitys Office for Science & Society (mcgill.ca/oss). He hosts The Dr. Joe Show on CJAD Radio 800 AM every Sunday from 3 to 4 p.m.

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The Right Chemistry: Looking for the secrets to longevity - Montreal Gazette

I generally try to shy away from the Ken Burns Baseballisms, but baseball really is a lot like life - and thats rarely as clear as after the kind of death we just experienced.

Every season ends in death, except those rare few that reach immortality in the form of a championship. And even in those rarest of years - just two in my 30+ years as a fan - immortality lasts only for the winter. Then you play another season and die again.

This years death was especially painful, so I stand here at the wake for the 2019 Cardinals asking you not to mourn the tragedy of their final days, but to celebrate their life. Thats what Im trying to do, with admittedly mixed results. But over the last week, as Ive interacted with fans in person, via text, at my local Cardinals bar and especially on Twitter, Ive been struck by how differently we all process loss.

The frustration and anger came easily. With blinders on to the context and the history of this season, these last four games were bad baseball. Even if they had happened on a Tuesday and Wednesday night in June, nearly getting no-hit in back-to-back games would strike a chord. During the nightmare 1st inning last night, I told my family it was the worst thing I had ever seen in my life. Not the worst baseball game - I dubbed it the worst thing of all things. 9/11 had officially been bumped down to the #2 slot.

If you took a stroll through Cardinals Twitter, and especially if you dug into the the dark hole of something like the replies to @cardinals or Derrick Goold, you would find plenty of fans wringing their hands, calling for the firing of everyone affiliated with the team in any capacity. This in turn sparked national writers and fans of other teams to decry the spoiled Cardinals fans, who cant even be happy when their team is in the NLCS.

Im no grief counselor, but Im pretty sure processing loss is not that simple and not that linear. Maybe there are fans among us who could watch that lazy fly ball drop between Jose Martinez and Kolten Wong and think Im just so grateful for all the joy this team brought me this season. Me personally - the words I yelled at my TV were very different from that.

But in the long run, and hopefully as early as this morning, the place we all should want to get to is appreciation for the joy this team brought us this season. Thats not to say that there were not frustrations, and its not to say there are not things to be improved or even fixed this offseason. But (nearly) every baseball season is going to end in death. If you can only find joy in the seasons that end in a Championship, youve set yourself up for a pretty dreary fandom.

The actual death of this season was a rough one. It called to mind 2004 for me, and Id guess many of you. That year, I saw my beloved Cardinals reach the World Series for the first time since my very first year as a true fan, way back in elementary school. Their team was a juggernaut. I was poised for immortality... and then they laid an absolute egg in the series.

That loss hurt me, and the hurt lingered for some time. But now, I look back on that as one of my very favorite Cardinals teams.

Much like that 2004 team, in the grand spectrum of Cardinals seasons, 2019 was a very good one. I hope you can all find solace in that as we begin counting the days to 2020 and another shot at immortality.

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There is something inherently science-fiction about Paul Rudd himself, a man who is nearing 50 but would still get carded by any careful bartender in America, like he is part of some kind of dystopian, futuristic cabal that has discovered a way to conquer aging with a high-tech treatment made of endangered whale placenta and children's tears. Rudd's new sci-fi Netflix show, Living with Yourself, isn't about his inherent immortality, but it does play on another of the guy's strengths: Paul Rudd's endless, debilitating charm.

The series, which was created by former Daily Show producer Timothy Greenberg, follows Miles (Rudd), a slovenly ad guy who cashes out his savings to pay for an experimental spa treatment that promises to break him out of his rut. The next thing Miles knows, he has woken up naked in a shallow grave and there's a man in his house that looks just like himexcept with a little more confidence and lot more hair product. It turns out that the spa replaced Miles with a clone and left the original Miles for dead, not knowing that their euthanasia process still had some kinks to work out. Now, there are two Ruddser, two Milesesand hijinks, naturally, ensues.

It isn't exactly a new premise. We've seen it in everything from the 90s rom-com Multiplicity to Calvin and Hobbes. But where the world didn't exactly need more Michael Keatons, Living with Yourself proves that things can only get better with more Rudd.

We're currently in the middle of a longform science-fiction renaissance, thanks to the rise of streaming services. Undone is fantastic, Dark is one of the most complex time travel plots ever put to film, and Maniac is the most brilliant, thoughtful, and criminally-overlooked series of the decade. Living with Yourself is another solid addition to the list, but its darkly comedic tone and dream-like quality shares more in common with the movies of Michel Gondry or the bubbly existentialism of The Good Place. The show isn't exactly breaking any new sci-fi ground, but between Rudd's pitch-perfect performances, which are easily two of the best of his career, and Greenberg's tight writing, Living with Yourself proves it's more than just Eternal Sunshine lite.

The season unfurls in a twisty narrative that gets stranger and better as it goes on, hitting its stride once the inciting incident gets out of the way, but over the course of its eight half-hour episodes, it never quite manages to deliver on the deeper, knottier question of the premise: What makes you you, anyway? And what does it take to truly change?

Do your memories define your personhood, or is it something deeper, more physical, more fundamental, that a clone with a copy of your brain can't duplicate? And, wait, speaking of, is the new Rudd clone ecstatic and amazed by the world due to some neurological tweak in the cloning process, or is he just overwhelmed by the splendor of life simply because it is new> And if so, will it fade like it fades for all adults in their march away from the innocence of childhood, and, and... ultimately, who cares? Look at the two Paul Rudds!

Why sweat that stuff when you can just kick back and enjoy the bumbling hijinks of two Rudds in a love triangle with their wife or whatever? Living with Yourself may not be Philip K. Dick-level sci-fi, or even the best science-fiction limited series Netflix has produced, but it's a compelling, hyper-bingeable series that will let you blow an entire weekend with a double helping of Paul Rudd. And what more do you want? Well, the answer is "even more Rudds," but we'll take what we can get.

The entire eight-episode season of Living with Yourself premieres on Netflix October 18.

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Get to know Nephrologist, Regenerative Medicine Specialist and Internist Dr. Priya Visweswaran Balakrishnan, who serves patients in Houston, Texas.

(The Magazine Plus Editorial):- New York City, Oct 15, 2019 (Issuewire.com)Dr. Balakrishnan is a board-certified nephrologist and internist with clinical and research experience. Additionally, she is a survivor of multi-organ failure and a near-death experience, as such she feels she was born to reverse kidney failure.

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She is the Principle Investigator of The Immortality Institute in Houston, Texas. The primary purpose of The Immortality Institute is to reverse and to cure, not merely control chronic medical illnesses. Every distinguished consultant or collaborator of Team Immortality is a part of the effort to reverse kidney failure.

In regards to her educational background, Dr. Balakrishnan earned her medical degree from Jawaharlal Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research in Pondicherry, India in 1994. Seven years later, in 2001, immediately after completing her renal fellowship, she sought advice from her mother, Lalitha, about opening her own dialysis unit. Lalitha urged her daughter instead to try and do everything she could to prevent patients from going on dialysis.

In 2007, Dr. Balakrishnan received bad news when she admitted herself for multi-organ failure and extensive bilateral kidney scarring. The near-death experience led her to develop a patented protocol to reverse kidney failure that is highly effective and safe. This protocol involves enhancing cellular energy production in the kidneys and the body by utilizing a mixture of safe and effective biochemicals.

Nephrology is a specialty of medicine and pediatrics that concerns itself with the kidneys. It is the study of normal kidney function and kidney disease, the preservation of kidney health, and the treatment of kidney disease, from diet and medication to renal replacement therapy. Nephrologists have advanced training in treating kidney disease. They diagnose and treat kidney failure, as well as help patients by prescribing medications, offering special diet advice, and coordinating dialysis care when the time comes.

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By Steve Leary, former Star editor

HOW on earth do you sum up the life of Alan Whalley with a few words?

It aint going to be easy. His Whalleys World feature alone entitles him to immortality. But there was so much more to Alan.

Every week his legion of loyal readers would flick through the Star looking for that familiar whiskery smile beaming out an invitation to join him on a gentle meander down Memory Lane.

His wizardry with words captured an army of fans which later grew into a worldwide supporters club after his column went online.

He created a personal universe populated by old time sports heroes like Our Nells Jack, the champion skating racer from the Brown Cow in Billinge or Tom Colquitt who could leap across canals.

Also on the WW menu you could sample yarns of how an expat St Helens bobby smuggled his favourite Burchalls pies out to Oz, or the day Cromwells Roundheads fired a cannon from Billinge Hill as Cavalier leader Prince Rupert hid in Windleshaw Chantry.

He also loved delving into the areas spooky past like the spectral legend of the Grey Lady of Taylor Park and the cannibal dwarves who devoured intruders in the depths of Crank Caverns.

Whalleys World was the cornerstone of the paper in those formative years. Weekly, Alan regaled readers with his gallery of lovable rogues, wartime memories and oddball tales.

One trusty subject was big Jonty Pilkington. Alan revealed that this legendary one-eyed hardman who combined punch-ups and fairground boxing contests had a hidden soft centre with a lifelong love for operetta, making trips to London to listen to legendary tenor Richard Tauber.

Alan also pulled back the dustsheets to reveal a treasure chest of forgotten St Helens heroes including Oscar winning Hollywood sound legend George Groves and the diminutive film actor Herbert Mundin who starred alongside screen legends Errol Flynn and Charles Laughton.

His writing generated a massive readership and Alan was making a big name for himself. He could so easily have earlier taken the step up to Fleet Street, but opted to remain on his home turf and shape the destiny of this paper.

That infectious personality had a big impact on the Stars founder Malcolm Smith. They had first bumped into each other at another paper up College Street. And when the Stars first editor Lesley Richards left, Alan came in to head up our small but select editorial gang, clattering away on the typewriters in a cramped office next to a newsagents in Corporation Street before expanding into an even more cramped cubby hole in the YMCA Buildings.

As his career progressed, Alans skills were recognised by senior figures in our group and he was promoted to the rank of editorial director in the 1980s with a seat on the board of Northern Counties Newspapers Bolton/St Helens.

Whalleys World took centre stage in the Star until he signed off in 2009, collecting a clutch of top journalistic Oscars for Alan along the way. And though Alan retired from official duties in 1992, WW remained a regular Star favourite for another 17 years - as witty and fascinating as ever.

But as I hinted, Alan had another facet: he was never stumped for a cracking idea to boost both St Helens and the Star.

There cant be many papers to have been advertised at the Olympics. But at the 1980 Moscow Games your Star got a massive plug on primetime TV courtesy of BBC boxing guru Harry Carpenter.

Over the course of the tournament Harry introduced three English fighters, brothers George and Ray Gilbody plus Keith Wallace.

The link: the trio all fought out of the ST HELENS STAR Amateur Boxing Club with trainer Tony Smart at their base in Clock Face. Though their Moscow medal bid fizzled out, the Gilbodies and Keith all became multiple title holders.

It was Alan who was instrumental in setting up the club and locating grants and sponsorship.

Alan also helped project the Stars image at the once massively popular St Helens Show. It was Star Funtime with the Mother and Baby Contest, Miss St Helens Star, Star Junior Talent, Glamorous Gran, Mr St Helens and even a Gurning contest! There was so much Star branding, most people believed it was this paper that ran the show and not the council.

I first met Alan at a nightclub launch party in the town centre. He was working at the Daily Telegraph but was soon to become my new boss at the Star and my mentor for the next four decades.

He pitched himself into so many good fights, I lost count. One that touched him deeply was the battle to keep the old Providence Hospital open. Month by month the donations flowed in. But not even employing the fluid fundraising talents of world record beer gulper Joe Johnson could stave off the inevitable.

My final memory of that sad Providence campaign was helping Alan and his dad rescue a weighty solid iron bench from a top floor verandah. I think his father had been in haulage and he soon had ropes and pulleys in place with Alan and myself dangling below like comedy bellringers. But down it came.

Talking about bringing things back down to earth, although Alan made many friends in high places, he frequently cocked a snook at stuffy authority.

He loved to tell the tale of how as a novice newshound hed been assigned to cover a council meeting.

Taking his place on the press bench, our young reporter, fed up with all with the endless speechifying, whipped out two chunks of (I think) cardboard and clapped them over his ears.

Young man would you mind telling the committee what those are for? one councillor demanded.

The return volley bounced back: Theyre my bull**** deflectors.

That was Alan to a tee. His impish sense of humour was ever-present through his career netting countless friends from all walks of life.

We will never see his like again.

Alan (right), wife Sandra (left) and Lady Pilkington and a friend

I FIRST encountered Alan Whalley, an extremely talented journalist and revered columnist, in 1966, writes Star founder Malcolm Smith.

I had been recruited to sharpen up the business side of a flagging provincial weekly group.

From the word go Alan and I had differing ideas on newspaper management. We clashed with no holds barred. That we became exceedingly good friends proved miracles can happen.

We were both obsessive in our views on status. What comes first, the cart or the horse! Editorial and Advertising belong to different worlds. I dismounted from my high horse and sank my pint.

Alan was a brilliant writer far more talented than his fellow scribes.

My job was to do the finance bit and I could add up! Money meant nowt to Alan. A clash was unavoidable! Alan, had his brilliant Whalleys World wooing readers whilst I had the financial headaches. Both of us were successful, a quiet impasse was necessary.

Later Alan headed to the Daily Telegraph and shortly afterwards I launched the Star so we saw little of each other for a while. When we did a friendship developed. Of a like age we discovered our playtime hobbies were similarboth enjoying the odd pint...often in the nearest bar to my YMCA office. He took an interest in my maniacal project in a casual way. He had influential friends which we often shared and gradually he became an ad hoc PR adviser. Getting Lady M and Lord Harry on the team was one of his scores. On several occasions I tried to tempt him into becoming Editor and eventually pressure won through. I had pulled off a superb coup. Not only had I won over the best possible editor but the Whalleys World reader bedazzling column too.

In conclusion I will reiterate a piece he wrote describing my No Problema send-up book about living in Spain. Alans intro read: I find it tough trying to sum up Malcolm Smith perhaps because I know him so well. Words like extrovert, outrageous, brash and gregarious spring readily to mind when reflecting on a friendship which has survived the test of a quarter-of-a-century, since the time we first met whilst working together on the same local newspaper.

Were it possible to deliberately get in the last word I would say touche mate. But Ill save it for the next time we meet.

That my heart goes out to Sandra says it all!

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Stephen Kings Doctor Sleep continues the story of Danny Torrance, 40 years after his terrifying stay at the Overlook Hotel in The Shining. Ewan McGregor, Rebecca Ferguson and newcomer Kyliegh Curran star in the supernatural thriller, directed by Mike Flanagan, from his own screenplay based upon the novel by Stephen King.

Still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the shine.

Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.

Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abras innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never before at once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.

Stephen Kings Doctor Sleep stars Ewan McGregor (Star Wars: Episodes I, II & III, T2 Trainspotting) as Dan Torrance, Rebecca Ferguson (the Mission: Impossible films, The Greatest Showman) as Rose the Hat, and Kyliegh Curran, in her major feature film debut, as Abra. The main ensemble cast also includes Carl Lumbly, Zahn McClarnon, Emily Alyn Lind, Bruce Greenwood, Jocelin Donahue, Alex Essoe and Cliff Curtis.

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In 2015, he made his championship debut for Dublin. In 2016, he finally got a proper run in the team but lost out eventually to Mick Fitzsimons. 2017 and 18 didn't bring much joy to him personally but this year, when the stakes were at their highest, Davy Byrne was the man entrusted with protecting Dublin's bid for immortality.

In nine championships matches in 2019, Byrne started eight of them - rested for the Roscommon Super 8s game - and come two epic finals with Kerry, he was deployed as a free man in the first game and tasked with wrestling with Paul Geaney in the second game.

If there was any doubt about how much faith Jim Gavin had in him, it was all alleviated across two ding-dong deciders in Croke Park.

It's a lesson in patience, in fortitude and constant self-reflection. It wasn't easy for Byrne doing all that work and not getting the same game time as some of them.

You're giving up hours upon hours, sacrificing weekends, eating and breathing this battle and, at the end of it, you're sitting with the subs.

It made Byrne hungrier.

"Every year, it takes such a time commitment and such a huge lifestyle commitment out of your life that you don't want to do it to sit on the bench and not play," the Dublin corner back admitted.

"It can weigh you down. Even mentally it's tough. So every year you're going out to try to get your place in that starting 15."

Byrne got his rightful place and almost made it an automatic selection despite the big guns missing out. It made it even more special.

"I think whenever you don't play you're obviously delighted for the team but there's obviously a little bit of individual disappointment there," he said.

"And luckily for me this year that wasn't the case. It's always going to be a little bit more special when you're out on the pitch.

"I've been on the bench a lot of times and those guys have been out on the pitch. But, I suppose, it's just the nature of the sport, different guys are going to get to represent the team every day.

"I was just delighted to be out there on the pitch. It was a goal for me at the start of the year to be starting more or less every game. So to achieve it was fantastic from an individual perspective."

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For those who are interested in the runtimes of upcoming movies, weve learned this week that Mike Flanagans Doctor Sleep, an adaptation of Stephen Kings sequel to The Shining that also serves as a sequel to Stanley Kubricks The Shining, will be joining this years IT: Chapter Two on the list of longest feature film adaptions of Kings horror novels.

Doctor Sleeps runtime is 2 hours, 32 minutes, making it just a tad bit longer than Kubricks The Shining. The 1980 horror masterpiece ran 2 hours, 26 minutes long.

As Flanagan joked on Twitter, You may want to go with the SMALL soda!

Ewan McGregorleads the cast as adult Danny, withRebecca Fergusonas Rose the Hat.

Carl Lumblyis playing Dick Hallorann withAlex Essoeas Wendy Torrance in the continuation of the storyline fromThe Shining.Kyliegh Curranhas been cast in the role of Abra Stone, a girl who has the gift of The Shining.Bruce Greenwoodplays the role of Dr. John.Alyn Lindis Snakebite Andi, withJocelin DonahueandJacob Tremblayalso starring.

InDoctor Sleep, still irrevocably scarred by the trauma he endured as a child at the Overlook, Dan Torrance has fought to find some semblance of peace. But that peace is shattered when he encounters Abra, a courageous teenager with her own powerful extrasensory gift, known as the shine. Instinctively recognizing that Dan shares her power, Abra has sought him out, desperate for his help against the merciless Rose the Hat and her followers, The True Knot, who feed off the shine of innocents in their quest for immortality.

Forming an unlikely alliance, Dan and Abra engage in a brutal life-or-death battle with Rose. Abras innocence and fearless embrace of her shine compel Dan to call upon his own powers as never beforeat once facing his fears and reawakening the ghosts of the past.

Doctor Sleephits theaters onNovember 8, 2019.

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Runtime of Mike Flanagan's 'Doctor Sleep' Confirmed to Be Longer Than Kubrick's 'The Shining' - Bloody Disgusting

The oldest etchings of the mythical path to immortality has been found in a 4,000-year-old coffin of a map for the soul to attain eternal life in Egypt.

Ancient Egyptians believed that by following the zig-zagging map in The Book of Two Ways they would reach Osiris, lord of the underworld.

Osiris is the high court judge of human souls in ancient Egyptian religion.

He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard.

It was believed that anyone who saw Osiris would achieve immortality and after a great feast with the deity they would achieve all their hopes and dreams.

But the route was perilous with the dead having to cross a lake of fire, the abode of the knife-wielders, gates of fire and darkness, and other hellish obstacles and demons.

Several copies of the ancient guide have been found, but a new study published in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology by Harco Willems suggests this discovery is the earliest known copy of The Book of Two Ways.

It was unearthed in 2012 in the famous necropolis city of the dead Dayr al-Barsha, located on the east bank of the Nile.

Inscriptions in the tomb refer to Djehutinakht I from around the 21st to 20th century BC and it was originally believed to belong to him, Ancient Origins report.

It was previously assumed the coffin must contain the body of Djehutinakht I, but Willems study points to an elite woman called Ankh as the likely inhabitant.

This comes after reports that the Great Sphinx could have a twin hiding under sand mounds in Giza.

Meanwhile, an ancient Egypt expert may finally have revealed the function of the Great Pyramid of Giza.

And Tutankhamun's great-grandmothers coffin was recently opened, which revealed the noble lady had blonde hair.

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Immortality bombshell as 4,000-year-old map for the soul unearthed in Egypt - Daily Star

Toy Story 4 director Josh Cooley and producer Mark Nielsen discussed a number of fan theories about the entire Toy Story franchise in a new video for Vanity Fair. If youve been wondering where the hell Andys dad went, you wont exactly get an answer, but Cooley and Nielsen share their thoughts on what couldve happened to Andys perpetually absent father.

Witness protection, maybe? Cooley says.

Nielsen offers, Id like to think that maybe they split up? Maybe hes still alive and living somewhere in another town? Maybe he was part of the CIA and is deep undercover. Any of those are possible, we dont need to know because its really all about serving the story of Woody playing the father figure role in Andys life.

Image via Disney-Pixar

Cooley and Nielsen read through a number of theories submitted by Reddit users covering everything from whether or not Boo from Monsters, Inc. and Bonnie from Toy Story 3 and 4 are the same person, whether the girl who used to own Jesse before abandoning her in Toy Story 2 grew up to be Andys mom, and if Home Improvement takes place in the Toy Story universe.

Maybe thats who Andys dad is, Cooley suggests. Tim The Tool Man Taylor.

Things get a little dark when one Reddit user posits the theory that the toys are immortal, and will outlive every human on earth before ultimately inheriting the planet.

That seems plausible, Nielsen says. I kind of buy that.

Image via Pixar

One of the things Ive heard is that maybe the toys are some sort of vampire that instead of sucking blood they suck the joy out of children and live forever, Cooley laughs. We never really thought about that when making the movie, its more about just family and being friends.

The filmmakers also explain the ending of Toy Story 4, and why they chose it over two other possible endings that had been written. So if you havent seen Toy Story 4 yet, you might want to skip that part of the video, or loudly sing a Randy Newman song to yourself to block out the spoilers. Watch the video below, and check out our review of Toy Story 4.

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