Here are some items I have bumped into recently:
Ways to look at data. How does it affect the way we read it? http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Some thoughts tied to emotion as a way of knowing: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/this-is-your-brain-on-metaphors/
When we get to the point of needing computers to explain to us what the other computers are doing, will our understanding be knowledge- or faith-based? Or will it be something else? http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/11/09/science/20111109_next_feature.html