X & Y

Published: Nov. 26, 2018, 5 p.m.

b'This week, Nancy is featuring an episode of Radiolab Presents: Gonads.\\nA lot of us understand biological sex with a pretty fateful underpinning: if you\\u2019re born with XX chromosomes, you\\u2019re female; if you\\u2019re born with XY chromosomes, you\\u2019re male. But it turns out, our relationship to the opposite sex is more complicated than we think.\\nThis episode was reported by Molly Webster, and produced by Matt Kielty. With scoring, original composition and mixing by Matt Kielty and Alex Overington. Additional production by Rachael Cusick, and editing by Pat Walters. The \\u201cBallad of Daniel Webster\\u201d and \\u201cGonads\\u201d was written, performed and produced by\\xa0Majel Connery and Alex Overington.\\nSpecial thanks to Erica Todd, Andrew Sinclair, Robin Lovell-Badge, and Sarah S. Richardson. Plus, a big thank you to the musicians who gave us permission to use their work in this episode\\u2014composer Erik Friedlander, for "Frail as a Breeze, Part II,"\\xa0and musician\\xa0Sam Prekop, whose work "A Geometric," from his album\\xa0The Republic, is out on Thrill Jockey.\\nRadiolab is supported in part by Science Sandbox, a Simons Foundation initiative dedicated to engaging everyone with the process of science. And the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, enhancing public understanding of science and technology in the modern world. More information about Sloan at\\xa0www.sloan.org.\\nNancy theme by Alex Overington.'