Whether it cuts out the noise, means we’re speechless, is a form of protest, allows us to daydream, relaxes the body, helps with a headache, makes us uncomfortable, keeps bad things secret, can mean we’re complicit, and sometimes be as deafening as noise, it’s impossible to deny that silence has many faces...

Kings and queens may cling to power, and the jester’s got his call. But, as you may discover, the common one outranks them all. This riddle may describe the hierarchy within a pack of cards, placing the ace as the most powerful, but it can also apply to how power exists in human societies. Each country may have a head of State in one capacity or another, but do they actually wield ultimate power or is it an illusion? …