Wow...trick of the light and the photography angle...but when you first approached the hole in the wall, I thought for a second you were looking down and approaching a pool of water reflecting the blue sky above....really cool.
I agree w/the comment of not using music in your videos, but relying on the ambient sounds. I feel like I'm right there w/you and Twoey. I can smell the dust, dirt, and desert plants. Feel the alternate cool and warm wind on my face. The texture of the rocks under my finger tips. You create a break for me from my deep E. TX forest home. Thank you, young man for taking me along on your walk abouts. So glad I found your channel. Such a respite from the crazy world we endure. God bless and keep you.
Your speedy graphs describing the area are indeed accurate Nolan. What is amazing is that no volcano was involved here unlike the area known as Ship Rock in New Mexico. There were many millions of years of deposition of sandstones. Then some faults occured allowing magma to intrude into the many layers of sandstones which may have then been a shallow sea at one point. The magma cooled and cracked into smaller shapes, typical of basalt. The sea retreated but rains over even more millions of years eroded the surrounding sandstone and mudstone ( softer) rocks revealing the cooled lava dike and the rivers did the rest of the damage to it.
This place is magical! Your camera work lets us feel the experience. And your explanation of how the volcanic rock is formed was very interesting. What a world we live in! Thanks for the ride...
Wow!! This was super cool video. The places you find to share with us are AMAZING. I think your explanation was spot on!! Be safe & keep on exploring.Love your dog!!❤
Just happened to also be poking around on google earth, and while also finding straight line formations in Utah (Gilsonite in my case), I found what looks like red petroglyphs at 39.9127689,-109.1560742 and the surrounding mesas. The Gilsonite line that first drew my attention to this area (aside from the name of the canyon) begins at 39.7758987,-109.0857174 and goes northwest for quite a distance. Old mining timbers can be seen in places along the line.
I've never had an interest in geology, but this video is converting me! That arch looks like a portal to another world. Fantastic drone shots! I remember years ago finding a book in a library that tried to claim that there were ancient dragons asleep in the world. You just had to look to find them in the landscape. However, I find your explanation far more interesting! I love the fact that these strange formations are actually possible under the right conditions. Thank you for taking us on another excellent treck!
I was thinking the same thing myself. When I saw the drone shot o the desert floor with that perfectly formed circle from the hole in the wall, and the near symmetrical ridge line to each side it seemed odd to me that no local tribes have used the site or at least left some signs of having used it. Like ruins or petroglyphs.
Outrageous cinematography. That shot thru the window rock! Like the person below, I thought I was also looking at a pond or lake at first. That's great drone work, too. Any chance you can put the type of drone or a link in your description? One shot you did in another of your videos, I could tell it was windy but your video was rock solid. Great work and thanks for taking us on this adventure! Very cool dog... double treats.
Thank you for explaining that the truth is usually stranger than fiction. There are so many crazy theories out there. A display of common sense and rationality is good.
Hey. Love your videos. Have you checked out the "Walls of Jericho" in Alabama? Or Roosevelt Dam? "Our melted reality" has some good videos on steep rock structures. You are like me running around on the tops of the slot canyons and red rocks. I always felt comfortable on the tops of giant rocks and in lakes and rivers. I'm so glad I got to do these kinds of things when I was younger. Now I can enjoy watching you guys have fun and discover things. Thank You 😊.
Between you, Destination Adventure, Camping With Steve, Desert Drifter and Trek Planner, I am having an awfully hard time picking a favorite TH-cam channel!
Nolan, what a totally awesome place to explore. Thank you so much for videoing this volcanic marvel and sharing here on TH-cam since many of us are unable to explore our vast Southwest.
Great video, as always Nolan. I very much enjoyed that. Except the part where you stepped on that thorn strip and thrashed you bottom of your foot. Ouch!😧 You should invest in a really good pair of hiking boots for sure, especially since you do these dessert hikes a lot, and get into some tough terrain. Stay safe, and have fun!😎
So jealous. I traveled to Nevada twice...Not for Las Vegas but for Nevada. It did not disappoint. Mt. Charleston, Valley of Fire, Red Rock canyon, Joshua Tree etc. I feel sorry for the people that go to Vegas and rent a Dodge Charger to drive on the strip. The real real winners are doing what you do outside Vegas in a 4 x 4 truck. Nice work as always.
Very interesting finding the volcanic wall. I have seen several while off roading in various parts of Utah but I have never heard them referred to "Volcanic Dykes". Great name to add to my exploring vocabulary. Thanks!
Yeah it definitely looks like an old dam and the rock that looks like a funnel would be the control of overflow and the jagged walls to slow it down in front of the wall.
Howdy! Those large rock slabs running parallel are dikes, my friend. Very nice ones at that. Dikes help us to see rock intrusions when prospecting areas for gold, but you must have the proper 'types' or rocks and minerals present to find that gold. Arizona in particular is quite famous for that. I watch your channel often as a Canadian. I prospect on my spare time as a hobby outside of my work, though I was once a wilderness guide for geologists, archaeologists and tourists in Atlantic Canada. It would be worth giving Jeff Williams a shout on TH-cam to converse about your geological interests and more! His channel is called Ask Jeff Williams. He's quite the character lol. Wishing you the best of luck and looking forward to more. Cheers.
Gorgeous and informative. All those formations are geological. A lot of structures humans have built were probably first inspired by these natural formations. Are there snakes or any other dangers when walking around these areas?
You're looking at a vitrified wall. That brick you picked up was a nice clue. Pretty cool. Jon Levi has a lot of content showing these cooked out structures all over the place. The so called coke ovens in Utah are another head scratcher when you "boots on the ground" them.
Wow. imagine finding an arch in the SW USA. Just imagine how the first ones felt when they viewed what would become Arches. Only a strange looking wall to someone not familiar with desert travel.
The rock formation @3:02 is stupendous! Hell, the whole area is stupendous but I can not comprehend the geological process that resulted in that perfect wall of volcandic rock holding back all of that sedimentary material. I love it! What an awsome place!
looking into what dikes are online, your explanation seemed very accurate and is actually inspiring me and others for procedural world generation, this is really cool ! your channel is a goldmine when it comes to cool rock formations
i whole heartedly agree, for this & another reason too; i took a geology class online and i can't remember ANYTHING about how dikes were formed even with an entertaining and knowledgeable professor, but this video's simple graphs and explanations made it all make sense for me :') made me appreciate rocks again man
@@maryl1833 hey ! procedural generation is a field of programming where you try to imitate our world's terrain (could be forests, caves, mountains, etc) using computer algorithms, for use in videogames and art, its use has been made widely popular by games like minecraft for example, which use procedural world generation techniques like perlin noise to create near infinite worlds that feature realistic-ish looking terrain features
We have been taught our whole lives that this is natural. It's worn away by nature but originally a few civilizations back built many of these structures. Lots of great research channels on the subject.
You need to go to Island of Hawaii to see the volcanic landscape there. It’s so unique, other worldly, and beautiful. Because it’s a live active volcano. It’s a constantly changing landscape. I love your drone footage. Very calming. Great video! And I always love seeing your dog along for your hikes.
Without knowing the location other than “Southwest,” while it COULD be volcanic dikes, I would consider the brick-like fractures as an indicating feature of monoclines. Typically sedimentary rock (sandstone, shale) that has moved into a vertical position due to tectonic reformation. Notable monocline examples are: Capital Reef National Park (Utah), Comb Ridge (AZ, UT). Jacobsville Sandstone has a similar look in the upper peninsula of Michigan. Dikes are igneous intrusions.
Wow~ Amazing video, Nolan; what a special & unusual place!! Love All your stuff; wish at least some of them were longer! Thanks my friend & be Careful out there! You were literally walking on the knifes edge 😮!
You should check out the white "Fins" in the Ferris Mountains of Central Wyoming..they are not volcanic, but instead are a dramatic limestone formation. I think you would enjoy that and it would bake a cool vid.
There is an alternative explanation for their formation, that accounts for sooo much of geological structures that has yet to be recognized by mainstream, but will in the future. That is the effect of atmospheric electrical arks , like extreme lightning, caused by cosmic scale shake ups. These electric arks causes scared effects and metamorphic changes to the underlying materials when the ark passes sometimes in relatively straight lines. Just look at the ( patterns) on the closeup you show. This clearly is where the sand stuck and melted to the outer formation. There is no evidence for any other harder outer material which could act as a outer casing to mould liquid volcanic rock. Anyway do you think this wall would exist after millions of years of repeat flooding? It's actually relatively new, just like the grand canyon.
We are microscopic on this earth and in the galaxy, and just a blip in time, it's amazing and thanks for the videos you do allowing us to see what you see Sheila from Scotland 🏴
Would have been awesome if you could team up with Randall Carlson and his team, they need all the help in visiting and documenting places with possible evidence of Younger Dryas megafloods.
Admettre que ça puisse être artificiel, reviendrait renier l'histoire officielle, donc le plus simple c'est de donner une explication géologique fumeuse, sans pouvoir apporter la moindre preuve, mais le sujet sera clos. Nous sommes loin de tout connaître, et surtout de reconnaître 😉 Merci pour vos vidéos extraordinaires que je découvre aujourd'hui
Wow...trick of the light and the photography angle...but when you first approached the hole in the wall, I thought for a second you were looking down and approaching a pool of water reflecting the blue sky above....really cool.
Me too
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I agree w/the comment of not using music in your videos, but relying on the ambient sounds. I feel like I'm right there w/you and Twoey. I can smell the dust, dirt, and desert plants. Feel the alternate cool and warm wind on my face. The texture of the rocks under my finger tips. You create a break for me from my deep E. TX forest home. Thank you, young man for taking me along on your walk abouts. So glad I found your channel. Such a respite from the crazy world we endure. God bless and keep you.
Your speedy graphs describing the area are indeed accurate Nolan. What is amazing is that no volcano was involved here
unlike the area known as Ship Rock in New Mexico. There were many millions of years of deposition of sandstones. Then
some faults occured allowing magma to intrude into the many layers of sandstones which may have then been a shallow
sea at one point. The magma cooled and cracked into smaller shapes, typical of basalt. The sea retreated but rains over
even more millions of years eroded the surrounding sandstone and mudstone ( softer) rocks revealing the cooled lava
dike and the rivers did the rest of the damage to it.
Hey nice technical writing! Very clear 😊
The drone work is amazing! It's like going on a magic carpet ride!
Do you know the real meaning of magic carpet ride from steppenwolf
@@thelukeewan7602 John Kay's new stereo system! 😀
This place is magical! Your camera work lets us feel the experience. And your explanation of how the volcanic rock is formed was very interesting.
What a world we live in!
Thanks for the ride...
I automatically smash the like button before watching. Your quad copter piloting skills adds so much more to this video. Every second is eye candy.
Thanks. Got some of the best drone stuff ever coming up
Wow!! This was super cool video. The places you find to share with us are AMAZING. I think your explanation was spot on!! Be safe & keep on exploring.Love your dog!!❤
I see you are developing a geology interest :)
Those Dike intrusions are all over the world.
Explaining things by evolution and millions of years is a far cry for faith of the completley unknown.
THANKS for doing all of the work and taking me along! Your excitement is contagious to this ole gal!
Dike intursions are always fun to find. They're so cool
Love your drawings explaining the mysteries you encounter. Nature does do weird stuff. Thanks for your wanderlust into the amazing desert.
I appreciate that you've started giving more insightful scientific explanations in your videos for the geological features we admire.
That is awesome!, It's always a pleasant surprise seeing you've uploaded, Great content!!
I love your minimal use of background music! I much prefer the ambient noises - adds some immersion. Music kinda distracts from the footage too.
The drone following you along the ridge is remarkable!! And I like the surprise night time discoveries on this one, too.
Just happened to also be poking around on google earth, and while also finding straight line formations in Utah (Gilsonite in my case), I found what looks like red petroglyphs at 39.9127689,-109.1560742 and the surrounding mesas. The Gilsonite line that first drew my attention to this area (aside from the name of the canyon) begins at 39.7758987,-109.0857174 and goes northwest for quite a distance. Old mining timbers can be seen in places along the line.
I've never had an interest in geology, but this video is converting me! That arch looks like a portal to another world. Fantastic drone shots!
I remember years ago finding a book in a library that tried to claim that there were ancient dragons asleep in the world. You just had to look to find them in the landscape. However, I find your explanation far more interesting!
I love the fact that these strange formations are actually possible under the right conditions. Thank you for taking us on another excellent treck!
Very cool. I'm surprised there aren't any signs of ruins near these rock formations. Beautiful POV!
I was thinking the same thing myself. When I saw the drone shot o the desert floor with that perfectly formed circle from the hole in the wall, and the near symmetrical ridge line to each side it seemed odd to me that no local tribes have used the site or at least left some signs of having used it. Like ruins or petroglyphs.
Little water, little food source
Thank you once again for spectacular scenery from the south west!👍😉
Another great adventure!! Thanks for taking me along!
Outrageous cinematography. That shot thru the window rock! Like the person below, I thought I was also looking at a pond or lake at first. That's great drone work, too. Any chance you can put the type of drone or a link in your description? One shot you did in another of your videos, I could tell it was windy but your video was rock solid. Great work and thanks for taking us on this adventure! Very cool dog... double treats.
Thank you for explaining that the truth is usually stranger than fiction. There are so many crazy theories out there. A display of common sense and rationality is good.
I really dig how you feature all those epic panoramic shots without any music or talking or suchlike; just one's thoughts & the wind...very cool, PoV!
Astonishing beauty.......thank you for sharing!
Thank you (and your beautiful dog!❤) for taking us on so many great adventures with you! With love from the UK 🇬🇧 ❤️ Xx
"Oh Nature, you do such weird stuff" ❤❤
Awesome stuff. Thank you for sharing
Hey. Love your videos. Have you checked out the "Walls of Jericho" in Alabama? Or Roosevelt Dam? "Our melted reality" has some good videos on steep rock structures. You are like me running around on the tops of the slot canyons and red rocks. I always felt comfortable on the tops of giant rocks and in lakes and rivers. I'm so glad I got to do these kinds of things when I was younger. Now I can enjoy watching you guys have fun and discover things. Thank You 😊.
Jon Levi needs to see this!!
all these wonderful videos here confirm jon levis videos...
Thankyou for this amazing video using drone tech. Shows so many interesting facets of this part of the Southwest.
Much gratitude to you for searching out these anomalies, the ancient world is amazing and thought provoking, thanks for the thoughts!
Those are some of the coolest looking basaltic dikes i've seen, the black color is so striking against the light sand!! Awesome find!!!
It must be good meditation to journey into those deserted places mostly alone by yourself.
Amazing place thnks for shareing
As always fascinating but you scare me when you walked on top of the wall
✞ May angels protect him wherever he goes. ✞
Yes and I was scared for the pooch too.
Between you, Destination Adventure, Camping With Steve, Desert Drifter and Trek Planner, I am having an awfully hard time picking a favorite TH-cam channel!
Yes, I also like Trek Planner and Desert Drifter. Along with POV, they are my favorites
Nolan, what a totally awesome place to explore. Thank you so much for videoing this volcanic marvel and sharing here on TH-cam since many of us are unable to explore our vast Southwest.
Great video, as always Nolan. I very much enjoyed that. Except the part where you stepped on that thorn strip and thrashed you bottom of your foot. Ouch!😧
You should invest in a really good pair of hiking boots for sure, especially since you do these dessert hikes a lot, and get into some tough terrain. Stay safe, and have fun!😎
Thanks for taking me along!
Amazing landscape/geology - thank you for posting this!
Thank you. Nice. This is similar to the Ship Rock in New Mexico.
Ship Rock is a very deep truth and an awesome one.
Fantastic pictures, again.
Many thanks and cudos to the two of you 👋👍
Ask Jeff Williams will tell you the same , your analysis was spot on too . Good job . Now look for a quartz vein to get rich.
And yeahhhh, you're gonna get wet! Sorry... but someone had to say it to this comment lol.
You have a great sense of balance, just consider sudden gusts of wind.
Wonderful video! We really liked your drawings and agree totally with your theory. The arch is amazing! Thank you for the vicarious adventure :)
I enjoy your drone footage. I really helps to put the perspective on the massive desert.
So jealous. I traveled to Nevada twice...Not for Las Vegas but for Nevada. It did not disappoint. Mt. Charleston, Valley of Fire, Red Rock canyon, Joshua Tree etc. I feel sorry for the people that go to Vegas and rent a Dodge Charger to drive on the strip. The real real winners are doing what you do outside Vegas in a 4 x 4 truck.
Nice work as always.
I fucking love your videos man. Plz never quit doing these
Very interesting finding the volcanic wall. I have seen several while off roading in various parts of Utah but I have never heard them referred to "Volcanic Dykes". Great name to add to my exploring vocabulary. Thanks!
One of ur best. Amazing footage. Keep on pov the truth is out there. Grand Canyon ?
That's extremely cool. Great find!
Awesome place! Thanks again brother. 🤘✌
Yeah it definitely looks like an old dam and the rock that looks like a funnel would be the control of overflow and the jagged walls to slow it down in front of the wall.
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I feel so much joy and peace from watching your incredible adventures, keep on keeping on, BRUTHA NOLAN!
Thanks my bro
Howdy! Those large rock slabs running parallel are dikes, my friend. Very nice ones at that. Dikes help us to see rock intrusions when prospecting areas for gold, but you must have the proper 'types' or rocks and minerals present to find that gold. Arizona in particular is quite famous for that.
I watch your channel often as a Canadian. I prospect on my spare time as a hobby outside of my work, though I was once a wilderness guide for geologists, archaeologists and tourists in Atlantic Canada.
It would be worth giving Jeff Williams a shout on TH-cam to converse about your geological interests and more! His channel is called Ask Jeff Williams. He's quite the character lol.
Wishing you the best of luck and looking forward to more. Cheers.
Thank you Nolan, another excellent video and narrative.
Crazy. Although not as a enormous as the structures in your other videos, certainly seems strange. Like a gate.
You are absolutely correct on how it was formed
These can be seen in Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. They can be seen from the road for a number of miles.
Gorgeous and informative. All those formations are geological. A lot of structures humans have built were probably first inspired by these natural formations.
Are there snakes or any other dangers when walking around these areas?
So great!!!!
You're looking at a vitrified wall. That brick you picked up was a nice clue. Pretty cool.
Jon Levi has a lot of content showing these cooked out structures all over the place. The so called coke ovens in Utah are another head scratcher when you "boots on the ground" them.
Was looking for this comment. Love Jon Levi
Clearly this is an ancient beaver dam built by an ancient lost civilization of beavers
Finally some reasonable theory! 🤣
Yep, the Beaver people, we have dogs, they had beavers...
But there’s no evidence of a lake retained by the beaver dam. Probably dried up ages ago.
The ancient beaver people evolved into modern Canadians
@@lucarmyfool4800beavers? the 2 leg variety
Amazing images! The bird singing completed the vídeo!
Wow. imagine finding an arch in the SW USA. Just imagine how the first ones felt when they viewed what would become Arches. Only a strange looking wall to someone not familiar with desert travel.
Beautifull, peacefull place! Love it!❤
I really enjoyed this video. I'm so glad you included how the Wall came to be.
They are called the Devil's Backbone, when these type of rocks are seen.
8:15 looks like someone has sawn off some of that old tree on your right. 😢😢😢
If I was 50 years younger, I’d be there too, fabulous scenery!!
The rock formation @3:02 is stupendous! Hell, the whole area is stupendous but I can not comprehend the geological process that resulted in that perfect wall of volcandic rock holding back all of that sedimentary material. I love it! What an awsome place!
Incredible! And you’re as sure-footed as a mountain goat. Except for the thorns… 😉
I believe the wall that perplexes you is called a basalt dyke . Gold is often found there is why I know .
looking into what dikes are online, your explanation seemed very accurate and is actually inspiring me and others for procedural world generation, this is really cool ! your channel is a goldmine when it comes to cool rock formations
i whole heartedly agree, for this & another reason too; i took a geology class online and i can't remember ANYTHING about how dikes were formed even with an entertaining and knowledgeable professor, but this video's simple graphs and explanations made it all make sense for me :') made me appreciate rocks again man
Procedural world generation - could you define what that means? Thank you.
@@maryl1833 hey ! procedural generation is a field of programming where you try to imitate our world's terrain (could be forests, caves, mountains, etc) using computer algorithms, for use in videogames and art, its use has been made widely popular by games like minecraft for example, which use procedural world generation techniques like perlin noise to create near infinite worlds that feature realistic-ish looking terrain features
Sick! Could be a cool feature in any virtual world
Amazing. Cheers
Great video man!
What drone do you use?
You’ve learned a lot in a short time. Great show.
This looks like ancient man-made walls. I don't know but it sure resembled stacked stones and old mortar in some ares
We have been taught our whole lives that this is natural. It's worn away by nature but originally a few civilizations back built many of these structures. Lots of great research channels on the subject.
@@soaring1 D'oh!
Why people can’t appreciate real geology is beyond me. Why does it always have to be some ancient civilation ( that didn’t exist). Come on, man!
Lots of bs nonsense. Appreciate the marvelous works of nature.@@soaring1
@@TheAlex8675309because it's the truth and you have not been taught to think for your self or your just another brick in the wall.
Thank you.
I am excited to see 👀 😍 you Video 📹 awesome 👌 from 🇩🇰 Denmark .
I’m sure to experience it in person is so profound and exhilarating to your soul. Thank you for sharing your treks and wonderment with us follower’s.
You need to go to Island of Hawaii to see the volcanic landscape there. It’s so unique, other worldly, and beautiful. Because it’s a live active volcano. It’s a constantly changing landscape. I love your drone footage. Very calming. Great video! And I always love seeing your dog along for your hikes.
You have amazing areas to walk around.💪🤠
Maybe moving around the world will soon be easier.
Without knowing the location other than “Southwest,” while it COULD be volcanic dikes, I would consider the brick-like fractures as an indicating feature of monoclines. Typically sedimentary rock (sandstone, shale) that has moved into a vertical position due to tectonic reformation. Notable monocline examples are: Capital Reef National Park (Utah), Comb Ridge (AZ, UT). Jacobsville Sandstone has a similar look in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
Dikes are igneous intrusions.
36°07'33"N 106°13'08"W
These are definitely Dikes.
Thanks!
Thanks for sharing. Great video!
Wow~ Amazing video, Nolan; what a special & unusual place!!
Love All your stuff; wish at least some of them were longer!
Thanks my friend & be Careful out there! You were literally walking on the knifes edge 😮!
Fabulous views!
You should check out the white "Fins" in the Ferris Mountains of Central Wyoming..they are not volcanic, but instead are a dramatic limestone formation.
I think you would enjoy that and it would bake a cool vid.
These lines remind me of the bird wings that stretch out at (Shiprock) in Shiprock, New Mexico.
Totally Awesome thank you so much ❤️ for taking us along
Spectacular as well as educational.
There is a very similar strip of basalt shooting off of Shiprock New Mexico on the Navajo reservation. Very amazing formation.
There is an alternative explanation for their formation, that accounts for sooo much of geological structures that has yet to be recognized by mainstream, but will in the future. That is the effect of atmospheric electrical arks , like extreme lightning, caused by cosmic scale shake ups. These electric arks causes scared effects and metamorphic changes to the underlying materials when the ark passes sometimes in relatively straight lines. Just look at the ( patterns) on the closeup you show. This clearly is where the sand stuck and melted to the outer formation. There is no evidence for any other harder outer material which could act as a outer casing to mould liquid volcanic rock. Anyway do you think this wall would exist after millions of years of repeat flooding? It's actually relatively new, just like the grand canyon.
Love birds eye view thanks for how it was formed sounds Dead on love Channel and doggy loves all the adventures with you too👍
There's the same structure with an arch in south central Colorado, too.
Very cool land features!
Merci pour ces images merveilleuses 🤩. Quelle structure ! Une architecture ancestrale....🗿🌎✨️
Look forward to these episodes bro ,thanks
We are microscopic on this earth and in the galaxy, and just a blip in time, it's amazing and thanks for the videos you do allowing us to see what you see
Sheila from Scotland 🏴
I’d be curious to know Jon Levi’s thoughts about this rock formation. The word ‘cooked’ came to mind. 🕊️
Would have been awesome if you could team up with Randall Carlson and his team, they need all the help in visiting and documenting places with possible evidence of Younger Dryas megafloods.
How absolutely fascinating! Wow!
Admettre que ça puisse être artificiel, reviendrait renier l'histoire officielle, donc le plus simple c'est de donner une explication géologique fumeuse, sans pouvoir apporter la moindre preuve, mais le sujet sera clos. Nous sommes loin de tout connaître, et surtout de reconnaître 😉 Merci pour vos vidéos extraordinaires que je découvre aujourd'hui