A New Year's Message from David Scott

David Scott welcomes in the New Year with an inspiring message on our global outreach plans & continued dedication to innovating the human experience. And, most importantly, he expresses the importance of embracing the possibilities of the present moment.

Our New HD Video Channel

Gather 'round for David Scott's second GardenSide Chat at our new YouTube channel.

In this latest video, David Scott discusses newNature & some if its applications at beautifuliving. Let us know what you think about oldNature giving way to newNature.

Visit the beautifuliving YouTube channel here.

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ElBeam Success!

At 8:30AM PST: In our third test, the elBeam transmitter successfully received a pulse of energy directly from our earth orbiting SolarWinds satellite!

The low flow of energy, harnessed from the solar winds outside of our atmosphere, was enough to power an array of light bulb's in our research facility. It's an exciting day at beautifuliving

Read the original elBeam post here.

Compressed-Air Vehicles Arriving!

We're excited to learn that our first order of compressed-air vehicles are on their way. These vehicles, powered by a unique air-driven motor, promise zero-emissions in local use. We hope that this technology will compliment our current electrically-powered vehicles, as petroleum-powered autos are prohibited at beautifuliving.

We are expecting an initial shipment of two models for evaluation: a small family-sized model (above) & a utilitarian model (below).

At beautifuliving, residents rarely need vehicles for personal use as our park-like environment is designed for maximum convenience. However, when necessary, residents use shared community vehicles which are available at several hubs.

Further, transportation paths are separated from walking paths & due to the speed restrictions & collision detection systems built into our vehicles (they basically drive themselves), we have never had an accident involving pedestrians or had an in-vehicle injury.

The prospects of the compressed-air car (CAC) are promising as we move closer to our goal of being a zero-carbon footprint community. GoZero!

Mutts in The Garden

 

Join us on Sunday, March 14th for "Mutts in The Garden", our new pet adoption program. As many of you know, the homeless dog, cat & exotic bird population in & around Puerto Peñasco has become worrisome & we want to help. Many of these helpless creatures have been abandoned by their owners or are the result of uncontrolled breeding, which has resulted in suffering & starvation. 

Please, stop by the The Garden of Happiness on Sunday between 11AM & 3PM where you'll fall in love with one of these cute creatures-in-need. The adoption process is so simple that you'll be welcoming the new addition to your family in minutes.

**All pets have been screened & modified for good health & child-friendliness & have been spayed or neutered to prevent breeding with our own exotically engineered pets. Some have even been given special qualities only possible at beautifuliving.

Perfecto NowAgain Marshmallows™ : Science Never Tasted So Sweet!

There you are, feeling completely fulfilled. Time seems to slow down. You're overflowing with joy & inspiration. Your only wish is to share this magical moment with someone special, allowing them to experience it as if they were right there with you. Sure, you could describe the experience but they would never truly know what you felt. Until now!

Hold it in the air before you, and the Perfecto NowAgain Marshmallow™ absorbs this special moment in its scrumptious filling, allowing you to share it later or re-experience yourself. Or both!

While they may look like ordinary marshmallows, these puffy treats have been scientifically engineered to capture your emotions right out of the air!** Then, at any point in the future you simply take a bite & you'll again experience the emotions captured inside.

Let's say, you'd like to convey the exhilaration of seeing the Aurora Borealis to a friend living far away & a postcard just won't do? Simply send a "Mallow in the Mail", infused with the emotions that you felt at that very moment. And, with just one bite they will feel exactly what you felt!

Or, your outside & it's snowing. You're about to kiss your beloved. It's a perfect moment. You hold a Perfecto Mallow in the air between you to capture this feeling. Later, perhaps in the summer, you both take a bite from this special mallow & smile as the same wave of joy you felt on that winter eve washes over you both.

The possibilities are endless!

Whenever those perfect moments happen, The Perfecto NowAgain Marshmallow™ from beautifuliving™ makes them magically come true, again! Just one nibble & you'll know just how sweet (& fluffy) science** can be. Remember to share!

**The Mallow's interior absorbs air-borne molecules altered through biorhythmic charge, electromagnetic dynamic flux & radion particles (graviscalar). Simply put, its gelatinous properties are "perfecto" for preserving 5-dimensional emotional states in space/time.
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Prospective Resident Application Available Now!

Our founder, David Scott, as well as everyone here at beautifuliving, is excited to announce that the 2010 Prospective Resident Applications are now available on our website!

Grasp this opportunity to join our forward-looking community here on the enchanting shores of the Sea of Cortez. Complete the application right away! The submission deadline is soon.

*Due to our managed growth initiative, only a few openings for new residents are available each year. However, approved applicants are granted a two-year period in which to arrange their move-in date, so apply now.

Update: The 2010 application deadline has now passed.

The David Scott Wellness & Pleasure Lodge

We are thrilled to announce a spectacular New Years Eve gala celebrating the opening of The David Scott Wellness & Pleasure Lodge at beautifuliving™.

Two years in the making, this 16,000 square foot facility will serve as an inspiring space where adult residents & their guests will relax & enjoy everything from stimulating conversation under a canopy of shooting stars to deeply fulfilling physical experiences in one of many private & group sanctuaries.

Begin your adventure in our fantasy themed, nano-enhanced, mineral baths followed by an invigorating nectar massage & stimulation of the pleasure centers. Themes range from Roman-styled enclaves to Mountain Chalet-styled retreats to leading-edge modernist visions, complete with virtual-transport pods for captivating adventures to the fringes of the galaxy or the inner reaches of the silent void.

Let the sense of touch be your only guide in our lightless & soundproof isolation sanctum's, replete with nanoSoft™ fabrics (our tantalizing, fur-like material that is truly alive with countless massaging nano-fibers). There's always room for two!

And, throughout the Lodge, beautiful bio-flora provide an enchanting & aromatic backdrop to an environment where engineered fauna freely roam & interact with guests.

Pleasures of the palette have not been overlooked, either, with an abundance of fresh fruits, exquisitely healthy culinary delights, & invigorating potions always available to our lodge guests.

Whether exploring for yourself or under the masterful guidance of our beautifulFeeling™ therapists, you'll find that pleasure comes in many forms at The David Scott Wellness & Pleasure Lodge at beautifuliving.

Share. Rejuvenate. Play. See you at The Lodge!

BeAnywhere™ Bio-Enhancement

beautifuliving residents traveling to the most remote locations on the planet will now enjoy the same monitoring of their bio-enhancements that they do while at home.

Our elBeam™ satellite technology [See Post] now tracks residents by communicating with their personal implant device*, allowing enhancement monitoring and harmonizing from anywhere in the world.

Whether you're watching Narwal on the Baffin Sea, enjoying the Aurora Australis in Antarctica, or visiting friends in Calgary, beautifulScience™ is with you ensuring your wellness & happiness. So, BeAnywhere™ with the knowledge that those 7-Sins will always be perfectly balanced!

*Residents are optionally equipped with an implant device [pictured above] for constant, personalized monitoring & harmonizing of all biological & neurological systems.

The Garden of Happiness Celebration

On Sunday, beautifuliving residents gathered to celebrate the opening of The Garden of Happiness™, formerly known as Founders Park.

The centerpiece is the NewEdenTree™, a mammoth wonder that will not only provide delicious fruit year-round (appleDelight*), but it will serve as a symbol of NewNature** for all.

Residents can now pick fresh, nutritionally advanced apples right off the branch & the fruit will grow back in just a few short hours. And, in the evenings, residents will gather beneath the tree's gentle glow (created by our luciferin derivative pulsing through the vascular tissue of each leaf. This is similar to what makes our fireflies glow in multitudes of color). Remarkable!

Best of all, you won't be cast out of this garden after you take a bite from our apples. Thank you beautifulScience!

* To learn more about appleDelight™, see our April 8th, 2007 post.

** NewNature™ is the term we use to represent our continuing goal of overcoming our genetic & environmental inheritance.

Fish Without a Face

Delicious looking Salmon, yes? You're right, it is delicious. Most remarkably, it's from a faceless fish! It's also healthier, safer, less polluting, and produced more humanely than conventional fish. After years of untiring development, beautifulScience has achieved the goal of growing fish meat from cultured cells! Essentially, particular cell samples are extracted from a conventional fish & then proliferated in a nutrient-rich medium in the laboratory. In-vitro fish meat!

With this control over the growth process, inedible animal structures (bones, respiratory system, digestive system, skin/scales, eyes, mouth, and the nervous system) are not grown. As a result, cultured fish production is more efficient in its use of energy, land, and water; and it produces less waste. Also, animals are not subjected to the stressful conditions of traditional fish-farms & large-net fishing operations.

Resident Bioethicist, Kapa W. Azzurro, remarked, "This is an amazing breakthrough with numerous positive implications for the environment, human nutrition, and the ethical treatment of animals." What's next? "We're very close to producing nutritionally advanced meat products from the cells of land animals. Imagine, deliciously juicy steaks made from face-less cows!", she added.

Evolutionary Unification : More Than a Social Problem.

Many of the genetically programmed behavioral tendencies which served us well when we roamed the African Savannah 100,000 years ago are not all well suited for life in our modern, urbanized world; The desire to identify with a group and hate other groups; unquestioning conformity; aggression; selfishness.

The results of these programmed behaviors are all too familiar; fanatical nationalism, violence, intolerance, perpetual war, the habitual splitting of governments into opposing factions, and the toll of psychological stress on the individual.

"The environmental and genetic methodologies we are researching may offer solutions to these problems," said Dr. T. Scanlon, the Director of the "Social Evolution Initiative" at beautifuliving. "Essentially, these behaviors slow our personal evolution, cause great pain & turmoil in the world-at-large, and impede the pace of our advancement as a species."

As the biologist and Angelican priest Arthur Peacocke observed, "The biological evolution of man has now been superseded by [his] psycho-social development." The solutions to these problems are not simply genetic but they are not wholly social either. What is clear, though, is that as a species we keep repeating our mistakes & it is time for us to intervene & move forward on our future paths both as individuals & as a community.

beautifulBabies™: Artificial Cells Initiative

Imagine choosing your child's tendency toward Gluttony. Or, Pride. Or, Greed. Or, some other appealing personality trait. Amazing, yes?

While we have made exciting progress in allowing parents to choose existing hereditary traits for their children, we are now embarking on an even more exciting course.

In our latest initiative, we hope to implant artificially created cells that determine new characteristics into pre-embryonic stem-cells. This will allow the same precise** control that many of our adult residents now enjoy (See the May 20, 2007 Post)..

At present, our manipulation of the genome affects only the particular individual; the characteristics do not get passed on to the offspring (Somatic Gene Therapy). By working at the pre-embryonic stage (Germline Choice Technologies (GCT)) the characteristics do get passed on to all following generations.

However, and this is the truly amazing part, because we believe in the freedom to make choices about our own individual character, these artificial cells will also carry a mechanism allowing many of the traits to be adjusted, or nullified, at any time during an individuals' life (for you geneticists our there, the process is inspired by Mario Capecchi's work with CRE Recombinase). Amazing, yes?

Further, in the spirit of avoiding behavioral & genomic uniformity within the community, this mechanism will be self-monitoring: it will not allow an adjustment, or drift, into morally undesirable or behaviorally homogeneous territory. Imagine!

beautifulBabies™: beautiful on the outside, beautiful on the inside.

** While physical traits can be precisely determined, genetic dispositions for personality and character depend greatly on the environment in which the child is nurtured.
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elBeam™: Beaming Energy Wirelessly

The dream of wirelessly beaming electricity through the air is coming true at beautifuliving™! David Scott, our founder, is seen here inspecting a solar paneled, electron-beaming prototype of the elBeam™, which has a range of .8 Kilometers (1/2 mile).

"Our goal is to achieve distances great enough to link to our SolarWinds™ satellite (See the July 14, 2008 Post)," says project leader, Dr. Scanlon. "When this is accomplished, electrons captured by the SolarWinds™ panels in space-orbit will be beamed down to our elBeam™ here on earth for wireless distribution."

David Scott shared in the enthusiasm, adding, "The elBeam™ is a very exciting breakthrough that will also pave the way for multitudes of new lifestyle-enhancing amenities, including more robust intercommunication with residents' personal bio-enhancements."
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Happy Grass

Our founder, David Scott, takes a hands-on look at a specimen from one of many exciting beautifulScience™ projects: EmotivMagic™ Flora. Still in development, these plants will form the basis of a new line of bio-botanical wonders with a very interesting attribute: The physical expression of feelings!

Imagine a field of grass that twists and turns and sways in fantastical patterns and colors! All by its own collective will. And, all because it feels good.

EmotivMagic™ Flora is being developed using upgraded techniques to those which brought us ColorMagic™ Grass, introduced at beautifuliving™ in 2004. Utilizing an exciting new nanoconvergence approach (biotechnology merged with nanotechnology) adds the freedom of motion, which will really bring the hills alive!
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