Summer camp is a quintessentially American experience, forging memories of paddling canoes, swimming in lakes and endless campfires for those that went. Camp No Counselors is bringing back that summer feeling by letting adults overrun kids’ retreats, but what’s driving grown-ups back to camp?

Pre-apocalyptic ‘prepping’ is an industry valued between $500 million and several billion in the US alone. At the peak of the Ebola outbreak, Amazon US sales of full-body protective suits shot up by 131,000%. Influencing the way we buy, the apps we download and even the holidays we take, is paranoia altering society for good?

Does a long walk really clear your head and make your problems clearer? It might not be a personal issue; it could just as likely be business-related. Street Wisdom is a start-up that believes slowing down and absorbing your surroundings could lead to greater wisdom in the long run.

Extreme sports have long been associated with risky behaviour, yet you’re fifty times more likely to pick up an injury playing rugby than rock climbing. Now, some of these supposedly perilous pursuits may be making their way into the 2020 Olympics. So is ‘extreme’ about to go mainstream?