In 2006, Keelin McDonell attempted to track down the origin of the holiday’s heart-symbol to explain how ... which looks like the heart shape we know today. The theory goes that the heart ...

Sweethearts Candy may be gone this Valentine's Day, but that shape – you know the one! – is everywhere. The iconic symbol of love looks nothing like the human organ. Why? Blame Aristotle ...

Why the heart symbol you see everywhere in February doesn't look anything like an actual human heart ... though it may even be older than that. The shape is pretty much a mystery, though.

A question. "But why doesn't it look like a heart?" The one at the Franklin Institute looks like a vast, walk-through potato. Which is indeed the actual shape of the human heart. Need a break?

wasn’t very good at describing what the heart actually looks like ... the human heart has long been associated with emotion and pleasure, the shape was eventually co-opted as a symbol of ...

In the hands of Anderson (who was the first-ever artist in residence at Nasa) and Hsin-Chien (whose ideas were shaped ... symbol, will be handed down from artist to artist, century to century ...

In an “Explainer” column printed last year and reproduced below, Keelin McDonell attempted to track down the origin of the Valentine’s Day symbol and explain how it got its familiar shape.