His windows face south, and through the murky light of a damp late afternoon the towers of Wall Street were barely visible.

NEWYORKER: A Dirty Business

With play not starting until 1200 BST because of murky light and a damp outfield to contend with, only 70 overs were bowled in the day - but it was a fascinating opening to the first neutral Test at Lord's since 1912.

BBC: Australia pegged back by Pakistan in Lord's Test

In those last years, when my life seemed to have been shrouded in an invisible damp mist, she was the torch by whose weak and gentle light I could guide my steps.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Esther's Inheritance'

Sledge described the operation generously: the rooms teeming to the scrolled plaster ceilings with bud-heavy green stalks, the floor cabled with sprinklers, the walls lined with foil reflectors to maximize the ripening effects of the solar-spectrum lamps, the stereo chattering NPR talk radio to cover the drone of the daytime light banks, and classical music to give the plants a cultural heritage through the cool damp night.

NEWYORKER: Lostronaut

His device will reportedly stream damp air containing microscopic water particles through a tube, while a laser diode beams light through the vessel onto a sensor located on the opposite side.

ENGADGET: Inventor patents laser microphone