Travolta’s stolen vintage merc found in pieces
John Travolta’s vintage Mercedes-Benz, stolen from a Los Angeles suburb, has been recovered in pieces and two men have been arrested, the police said. Travolta’s convertible 1970 Mercedes-Benz 280-SL vanished from the street in Santa Monica while the Pulp Fiction star was visiting a nearby Jaguar dealership in September. Michael Green, 58, and D.L. Rayford, 52, were taken into custody in December by members of a law enforcement task force investigating a sophisticated car-theft ring, Santa Monica police Sergeant Richard Lewis said.
“Through the collaborative efforts of investigators ... two individuals were identified as suspects relating to the theft of Mr Travolta’s Mercedes, and were arrested by investigators from the task force,” Lewis said.
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‘Infants have innate sense of physics’
It’s said that every child is a born scientist. Now, a new study has found that infants as young as two months old have the basic knowledge of “intuitive physics”.
“We believe that infants are born with expectations about the objects around them, even though that knowledge is a skill that’s never been taught,” said Kristy vanMarle of psychology at the University of Missouri. “As the child develops, this knowledge is refined and eventually leads to the abilities we use as adults,” vanMarle said.
To reach this theory, vanMarle reviewed infant cognition studies of the past 30 years.
They found that infants already have an intuitive understanding of certain physical laws by two months of age, when they start to track moving objects with both eyes consistently and can be tested with eye-tracking technology. — PTI
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