Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart?

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In which John falls down a rabbit hole trying to figure out why ❤️ does't look like the thing it is supposed to be, and what that means for love. Sources: The heart shape is covered in a section of Martin Kemp's book Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon. I got the smiley face metaphor from that book, as well as a lot of historical background. I learned about the Indus Valley Civilization hearts from here: https://www.artandobject.com/news/history-heart-shape and more art from this TED article: https://ideas.ted.com/how-did-the-human-heart-become-associated-with-love-and-how-did-it-turn-into-the-shape-we-know-today/ This article explores Cyrene and its silphium: https://bigthink.com/health/why-heart-shape-symbolizes-love/ And the wikipedia article on this topic is also good (if limited): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_symbol ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://eepurl.com/Bgi9b And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info Learn more about our project to help Partners in Health radically reduce maternal mortality in Sierra Leone: https://www.pih.org/hankandjohn If you're able to donate $2,000 or more to this effort, please join our matching fund: https://pih.org/hankandjohnmatch If you're in Canada, you can donate here: https://pihcanada.org/hankandjohn John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com