site: bucket find/ folders by capture date + 2026-05-09 capture (67 finds)
Migrate every find from src/content/find/<slug>/ to src/content/find/<year>/<month>/<slug>/ — all 289 existing finds moved into 2026/05/. The find content-collection loader gets a new leafSlug generateId so ids (and therefore URLs at /find/<slug>/) stay flat; src/lib/find-hero.ts switches to a recursive **/hero glob. Bundle items[], promotedTo/fromFind keys, /sources cross-refs, and category/tag pages all keep working unchanged. Skill docs (daily-finds, build-review, build-bundle, cluster-bundles), README, and CHANGELOG updated for the new on-disk path. Also: 67 new finds from the 2026-05-09 capture run (Web Curios 8, MoMA 7, r/macapps 7, r/dadjokes 6, icanhazdadjoke 6, Wallpaper* Travel 5, Snow Peak 5, Kottke 3, Boutique Homes 3, etc.); felo-ergonic-screwdriver-set rolled back per editorial decision.
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name: "Silphium and the Origin of the Heart Symbol"
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subtitle: "The plant that gave us ❤ — and is being un-extincted"
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date: 2026-05-06
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link: "https://www.themarginalian.org/2026/05/06/silphium/"
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source: "The Marginalian"
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- quotes
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- general-delight
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tags: [history, botany, etymology, marginalian]
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description: "The familiar heart shape comes from silphium seeds; the plant went extinct two thousand years ago and a Turkish botanist may have just brought it back."
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The reason the cardiologist's symbol doesn't look anything like an actual heart is that it isn't one. It's a silphium seed pod — silphium being the contraceptive-and-aphrodisiac plant the Greeks of Cyrene grew on coins, then over-harvested into extinction by the second century AD. Botanist Mahmut Miski has spent the last decade arguing that *Ferula drudeana*, growing on a single Turkish slope, is silphium's surviving cousin, and that cold-stratification can bring the lineage back. Maria Popova traces the whole 2,400-year arc.
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