There is a lot of material here, so what I did was select all the “interesting” chapters and sections, meaning the ones that were physics related or were interesting to me, like Chapter 6. What stood out was “nuclear physics and the stock market” followed by “The stock market is a casino.”
The author has written a sophisticated text with enough mathematics to scare off most people, but to get the reader's attention and keep it, he drops gems here and there that urge one on. A sample list contains: “Waiting for Godot,” Central Limit Theorem: why things seem mostly normal, entropy, Limits of detection, The split-beam experiment, Chemical potential of massless particles, Bose-Einstein, Fermi-Dirac, Diagnostic medical indices: what do they signify?, Theory of flight (baseball and descent of a jumbo jet makes Chapter 7 very interesting). Chapter 8 on reliability of guesses by groups including the jury theorem is...