It isn’t Cupid, stupid: A brief history of the heart

How did the artery-laden medical heart evolve into a cute red heart icon ?

The red, cartoon symbol of the heart, with or without arrows in it, is part of a Western conspiracy. Like most Western conspiracies, it involves us giving them our money. We do this by buying I (heart) NY T-shirts, and heart-shaped boxes of candy.

An actual heart is hardly as pretty as its pictorial representation