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The European green crab has quite the reputation. They’re smart ... in a dangerous way. They’re voracious, predatory and they eat their young!

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The baddest crab

A Cape Cod Notebook

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The European green crab has quite the reputation. They’re smart ... in a dangerous way. They’re voracious, predatory and they eat their young!

24 episodes

#Conversations #Science #Society #Cape Cod #Environment #CAI

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What happened to biking etiquette? 4:19

23 hours ago4:19

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Despite what might be in your head, the 25-mile path from Yarmouth to Wellfleet is not just a bike trail. There are runners and skateboarders and walkers, many of us with dogs.

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What you learn while hitchhiking 3:58

8 days ago3:58

3:58

The most important teacher I ever had was not some Harvard professor, or one of many newspaper editors who carved up my prose. It wasn’t even a person, a whole person anyway. It was an appendage.

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Lichen on a drizzly day 3:25

15 days ago3:25

3:25

What really impresses me at this time of year, at any time of year, actually, are the lichens. These otherworldly beings, growing on tree bark and branches, spreading on the ground or on rocks or gravestones, seem to thrive in any weather.

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Don’t give in to panic 3:52

29 days ago3:52

3:52

The other day I took some old friends up to Great Point. The weather wasn’t particularly good — Nantucket in March, we kept grumbling. I don’t think they’d mind me saying old friends, as it’s true. Both are older than me by a mile, and they don’t get around as easily as they once did.

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A detour to Scargo Tower 4:09

5 weeks ago4:09

4:09

Those of you who travel the north side of Cape Cod know that Route 6A has been closed in Dennis for several months, and a detour sends drivers either north through Sesuit Neck or south to Scargo Hill Road.

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The baddest crab 4:17

7 weeks ago4:17

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The European green crab has quite the reputation. They’re smart ... in a dangerous way. They’re voracious, predatory and they eat their young!

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Echolocation 3:23

8 weeks ago3:23

3:23

My father stands in the doorway of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond. Of course, there is no cabin anymore, instead the cabin’s footprint is marked with narrow granite stones, giving the whole place an unintended funerary feeling.

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Pudelhund, meet Canis Latrans 3:30

9 weeks ago3:30

3:30

My dog America, a full-on poodle, loves to stare into pines and oaks that quill out of a hillside down to the marsh. She’ll do this sitting on a comfy bed by a window, standing outside on a deck, or curled atop pine needles.

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My neighbor is a sly fox 4:08

10 weeks ago4:08

4:08

We’ve all had one of those neighbors. You know what I mean. The ones that keep offbeat hours. Or they just wander onto your property without asking. Or they disturb your household with their comings and goings.

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The fascinating past of the island fisherman 4:20

11 weeks ago4:20

4:20

Nelson Sigelman writes about a friend who is an island fisherman with a mysterious past.

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Optimist Atlantic Islander 2:39

12 weeks ago2:39

2:39

After years of watching people leave Nantucket during the winter, I decided I wanted to be one of them. Not for the whole winter, just for a week

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Walter Baron 2:30

13 weeks ago2:30

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When Walter Baron built his workshop on a side road in Wellfleet 40-odd years ago, he knew what he wanted to do: Build boats.

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Winter, lost and found 3:53

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January, it’s time for the golf course 4:12

15 weeks ago4:12

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January is the time of year on Cape Cod when we really start to doubt some of our life choices. A couple of different decisions and I would be living in a place where the temperature rarely falls below 50 degrees, and there’s no such thing as ice.

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Gone 'Nantucket Native' 3:12

16 weeks ago3:12