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And another thing I loved is that it doesn’t make any noise or play any tunes, which is brilliant when you may or may not have had a few glasses of wine the night before. Ahem…
But what’s the children’s verdict? Well, it kept Eliza entertained for ages and it’s great for fostering imaginative small world play (central to our rules for play). Have you seen Bing on CBeebies? We were recently sent the new Fisher Price Bing play house to review.Early episodes feature the seductively soothing tones of actor Mark Rylance – from Wolf Hall – as Bing’s guardian Flop, and all the children are bigger than the adults, reflecting how child-centric life is at that age. I was skeptical of the house with two rooms for a long time. I just couldn’t see how to squish it up into a point without changing its topology. I took Hatcher’s word for it, but it wasn’t until I made it for myself that I truly believed in its contractibility. The day before spring break last semester, I brought some clay to my topology class, and one of the things we made was the house with two rooms. By the time we were finished, I felt like I truly understood the space. The house with two rooms...and a slightly leaky roof. The theme of each episode is neatly summed up in a line at the end –‘Making friends…it’s a Bing thing.’
I’d been out for dinner the night before and while I wouldn’t say I was hungover, I was…struggling slightly, so this was a really welcome welcome distraction. If you want to take the easy way out instead, 12-year-old David Hitchman, son of University of Northern Iowa mathematician Theron J. Hitchman, made a fun video about building it in Minecraft, and Ken Baker wrote about it on the blog Sketches of Topology. There, he describes it in a different way: Here is where I could tell you how I saw that the space was contractible, but I’m not going to do that. I think the best way to see it is to make it out of clay or any pliable material you have on hand. Hatcher’s diagram and description give a good recipe, and I know from personal experience that undergraduates and even postdocs like me can follow the instructions well enough to create a convincing house with two rooms, although I must admit our roof was leaky.However, it doesn’t answer my biggest question about Bing – how does Flopstay SO CALM? Answers on a postcard please. Bing is the Cbeebies animated series – not the search engine – about a toddler bunny and his friends learning to cope with new experiences and emotions. I’m pretty impressed with Bing’s House. It’s possibly not something I’d have thought to buy the children myself, but then I clearly have no clue about toys (the Fisher Price Klip Klop Princess StableI wasn’t too sure of remains is the most played with toy in our house). As well as the vintage retro Fisher Price Little People, all the FP toys are well loved in our house – from the modern Little People House to the baby gym and the iconic phone. Contractible” is topological shorthand for “like a point” or, not to put too fine a point on it, “boring.” A space is contractible if it you can smush it down to a point without tearing the space or gluing any parts of it together.For example, a solid ball is contractible because even though it is three- rather than zero-dimensional like a point, it can be shrunk down all the way to a point without tearing or collapsing any of its interesting features. Hence, for some topological purposes, it’s close enough to being a point that we might as well assume it is. Here’s our Fisher Price Bing House review….Keeping children entertained for hours? It’s a Bing thing.
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