Bermuda's golf courses sit on land that's (partly) an African import

Bermuda's red soil a mixture of local material and African dust.

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[helel ben shachar]

Very interesting news. The migration of geological materials preceded that of peoples and perhaps even made their migration possible: the rich soils made the plantation economy possible.

Off topic, but is there something in the contract one signs when crossing over into the sphere of journalism that requires some glib reference somewhere? I don't think I would have noticed it if the article had followed the usual convention of putting the glib bit upfront, aka a kind of teaser, but when it didn't and when it stayed wonderfully serious, I was all set not to be confronted with it. Then, whammo! (Or perhaps that was your intended effect. Sly. Very sly.)

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the ........ oh, never mind.