Hello and welcome to the Intelligence on Economist Radio. I'm your host, Jason Palmer. Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Lots of China's children live out their youth separated from one or both of their parents,

as workers have flooded out of villages and into urban centers.

We examine the costs and the risks to those 100 million young people.

And the consistent flavors of your favorite foods and drinks are guaranteed by highly trained human tasters.

It's a slow-going job, so engineers are trying to short-circuit it

by developing electronic tongues that can do the work automatically.

But first... All rise for the jury.

Lawyers made their closing arguments yesterday

in the case against Derek Chauvin,

a former Minneapolis police officer.

You can believe your eyes, ladies and gentlemen.

It was what you thought it was.

It was what you saw.

It was homicide.

We have to look at the cause of death to determine

did Mr. Floyd die exclusively of asphyxia

or were there other contributing factors?

Mr. Chauvin's involvement in the death of George Floyd

sparked what became a series of global protests against racial violence last summer.

Minneapolis remains on edge, in large part because of the killing a week ago of Dante Wright,

a 20-year-old black man by the city's

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