Working from home during this time of the season has its cozy hibernation-esque elements that make it especially enticing, but this kind of immobile behavior makes it easy to slack off when it comes to exercise.

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All that changes within two or three hours of an animal emerging from hibernation, when a wave of new growth ensures that the number of synapses in the hippocampus soars beyond even pre-hibernation levels.

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Each year, would-be buyers come out of hibernation first: search behavior starts to pick up in January, reaching its peak in March and remaining strong through August.

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Both of them are less of a "boot" and more of a "wake from hibernation" sort of thing, but most of the issues are the same -- you still have to boot a kernel, whether or not you're gonna populate the system with a saved state when it's ready.

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And just as TRON: Legacy has come back to pop culture relevance after a long hibernation, Commodore 64 has been relaunched with the same classic look, but all-new, modern-day technology on the inside.

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Let me start by asking a few questions with the intent of pointing out the obvious: what better time could there possibly be to ramp-up sales and marketing investments than when your competition is slashing costs and going into hibernation?

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As the Keynesian argument slips back into the hibernation in which it spent the 70 years between the New Deal and the New New Deal, the after-action assessments are piling up.

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But deep cooling is invasive and complicated, requiring a trained four-person team. (Safar Center spinoff company EPR-Technologies hopes to develop automated chilling equipment.) Far easier would be a drug that induces hibernation on demand.

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